New Online Writing Class: Edit For Success 2026!

 

Hone Your Craft & Edit For Success 2026!

Palm Springs Writers Guild

Presenter: Ariella Moon

January 16, 2026

Zoom 1:00-3:00 Pacific Time

 

Start the new year with a fresh polish to your work-in progress or finished manuscript. In this interactive online lab, award-winning author Ariella Moon will show you how to scrutinize your manuscript through an editor’s eyes. We will review macro and micro edits that will help you identify common problems including structure, head-hopping, point of view, flat or AWOL characters, weak verbs, and much more, including:

• ·      Impactful story, scene, and sentence structure.

• ·      Word choices, including weak verbs.

• ·      Sensory descriptors to draw in readers.

• ·      Relatable/intriguing protagonists and their GMC. 

•     Creating a good balance between narrative and dialogue.

•     Meeting your genre’s needs and your readers’ expectations.

Learn more at Palm Springs Writers Guild

About Ariella Moon

When not immersed in her fictional worlds of medieval Scotland, Fairy, or contemporary high schools, award-winning author Ariella Moon presents writing workshops, and leads local and international seminars and rituals on healing, Earth Magic, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. She lives a nearly normal life doting on her extraordinary family, two shamelessly spoiled dogs, and a media-shy dragon.

Discover Ariella's medieval Two Realms fantasy series and her contemporary Teen Wytche Saga novels at online book retailers and at www.ariellamoon.com.

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.

REGISTER

 

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

Learn More & Register

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

2 Events That Will Help You Market Your Books!

 

Upcoming Events!

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 Author Panel on Book Marketing

June Writers Forum

June 1, 2024, 11:00 AM - Noon (Pacific Standard Time)

Mizell Center, 480 S. Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 

Presented by the Palm Springs Writers Guild

What works, and what doesn't work?

Please Join authors Ariella Moon and Joanne Hardy for a panel discussion on Book Marketing moderated by Kristina Hoffman. 

Learn more or register

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Social Media For Writers

An online Zoom class presented by Ariella Moon

and the Palm Springs Writers Guild.

June 7, 2024, 1:00 M - 3:00 PM on Zoom

• Do you need to be on all social media platforms?
• Which social media platform do your readers likely use?
• How do you balance creating content for social media with writing your book?
• What is the “must have” platform for every writer?

 In “Social Media for Writers,” Ariella Moon will answer these burning questions, plus give writers tips on blogging, using Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest, and explain how to use social media to connect with readers.

Learn more or register

A.I. For Authors: What Every Writer Should Know About A.I.

 

 

“What Every Writer Should Know About AI”

February 16, 2024

1:00 - 3:00 Pacific Standard Time 

Online zoom class for writers

$55.00 PSWG Members

$110.00 Non PSWG Members

 

 

In the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence, authors and other creatives

may be tempted by AI’s promise of shortcuts and easy money. But using AI the wrong way can pose several risks to your publishing contracts, your copyrights, and your monetary interests.

 

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

·     The US Copyright Office stance on A.I.

·     Legal challenges and legislative proposals concerning A.I.

·     Audible restrictions on A.I. generated audiobooks

·     Copyright restrictions on A.I. generated images used in graphic novels

·     Positive ways authors, artists, and other creatives can use A.I.

 

Award-winning author Ariella Moon will walk registrants through the current issues involving generative AI and how (and why) some authors, and several author and creator-led organizations, are fighting to protect writers’ intellectual property and copyrights in the United States and Europe. 

To learn more or to register: Palm Springs Writers Guild Event