New Online Writing Lab: Guide to Launching Your Next Book

Zoom Online Class

Friday, May 16, 2025

1:00 - 3:00 Pacific time

 

 

To learn more and register, https://palmspringswritersguild.org/event-6010777

It can be difficult to think of your recently finished book as a product and yourself as a marketer. But indie, hybrid, and many traditionally published authors must make that shift in order to have a successful book launch. Whether your goals are to garner enviable sales and multiple reviews, attract new readers, or all of the aforementioned and more, you need to plan a book launch. In this presentation, Ariella Moon will guide authors through pre-launch, launch, and post-launch marketing and promotion.

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Beltane: Weaving a Celtic Fire Festival Into a Medieval Fantasy Novel

How do you incorporate a fire and fertility festival into a Young Adult medieval fantasy novel?

Very carefully.

Photo by Social History Archive on Unsplash
Part of a set of glass lantern slides of May Queen images believed to be from the early 1900s,
possibly in the Cheshire area.

In ancient times, Beltane festivals celebrated the Celtic sun god, Belenus, and heralded the start of the Celtic summer and growing season. Beltane symbols include the maypole, Green Man, May Queen, bonfires, May wreaths, and The Lovers tarot card. 

In The Beltane Escape, Book One in The Two Realms Trilogy, Beltane acts as a ticking clock. A spell cast forward to medieval Scotland strikes Lady Fenella and leaves her stolen, betrothed, and lured back centuries into Fairy. By Beltane, nine days hence, she must find her cousin in a dangerous world of magic, unshackle herself from a sorceress, and return through time before her kidnapper destroys all she holds dear.

The heart-pounding energy often associated with Beltane sexuality, is transformed in The Beltane Escape, into pulse-pounding suspense as time runs out for Fenella. She smells the nervous cattle about to be driven between balefires; hears the pipers; and sees villagers waving cowslip wands attached to peeled willow wands.

The one element that eludes her - a means to escape.

Amazon

In anticipation of the upcoming release of the epic conclusion to The Two Realms Trilogy, The Beltane Escape, The Amber Elixir (A Two Realms novella), and The Viking Mist can be read for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription. Ebook and print versions are available for purchase.

Happy Beltane and May Day!

 

~Ariella Moon

 

 

New Online Writing Lab: Unleash the Poet Within

 

“Unleashing the Poet Within: The Distillation Process”

Presenter: Susan Detlefsen, PhD, 

April 18, 2025    1:00 pm  - 3:00 pm Pacific Time

A Palm Springs Writers Guild

Zoom Online Writing Class

Learn more here

Upcoming Book Festival, and A Writing Class!

 

Spring 2025 

Palm Springs Writers Guild 2025 Book Festival

Saturday, April 26 at the Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory, Rancho Mirage, CA

Book signing 10:00AM - 4:00 PM

10:00 Jayce Carter and Ariella Moon author panel

Free parking and admission

"A Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book"

Friday, May 16, 2025

Zoom Online Writing Class 1:00 PM -3:00 PM

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The Final Empire: Mistborn, Book One, Review

 

A Great Start to a Mythic Series

In Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson introduces readers to a beautifully detailed world of falling ash, feared mists, and a system of magic called Allomancy. Royals and skaas (slaves) inhabit this gray world, controlled by the cruel immortal Lord Ruler.

 

Vin, an abandoned, traumatized, half-skaa teen survives her harsh life with a gang of thieves by keeping herself small and fading into the shadows, where she hopes no one will notice her. But when her circumstances change, Vin is brought into a new gang that recognizes her magic and needs her to visibly mingle among the royals she fears. Vin isn’t supposed to fall for one, especially not the heir to the most powerful Royal House in Luthadel.

 

I loved Sanderson’s relatable characters, imaginative system of magic, inventive creatures, and vivid setting. Embedded in Mistborn are themes of hope, trust, and friendship, and how difficult those are to attain. 

As soon as I finished Mistborn, I read the next two books in the trilogy! Five stars for all three!

AMAZON

 

Work Smarter, Not Harder with AI

 Do you prefer spending your time writing your book, 

not social media posts? 

Join my upcoming class and learn how artificial intelligence can help you create engaging, effective content that stands out on every platform. 

Saturday, April 5, 2025

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Mizell Center

480 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

In this workshop, you will learn:

 

·      How generative A.I. collects text, images, and other content

·      The #1 tip to achieve the best results from Generative A.I. 

·      Positive ways authors can use A.I. to increase their productivity & enhance their social media content and promotion.

·      Helpful A.I. tools for authors.

.      The US Copyright Office Stance on A.I.

·      Legal challenges and restrictions concerning A.I.

 

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Led by Award-Winning Author Ariella Moon

Presented by the Palm Springs Writers Guild

New Online Writing Lab February 14, 2025!

Collaborative World-building for a Book Series or Anthology

Palm Springs Writers Guild

Presenter: Ariella Moon

Friday 14, 2025 on Zoom

1:00 PM - 3:00PM PST 

Collaborating on a shared-world book series or anthology is a great way to hone your skills, bump your Amazon rankings, and expand your fan base through group marketing and promotion. Creating stories centered on a shared world can be fun and profitable, but requires structure and organization. In this workshop, Ariella Moon will draw upon specific examples to show the step-by-step process, so you can determine whether collaborative world-building for a book series or anthology is right for you.

 
 5 Things You Will Learn From This Class

1.     5 characteristics needed to be a collaborative world author

2.     The planning process for creating a shared world series or anthology

3.     What should be included in a shared world author contract 

4.     Collaborative marketing.

5.     Post project possibilities

To Learn More or to Register, Click Here

 See you on Zoom!

Ariella Moon