Ariella Moon

While researching the healing properties of a medieval medicinal herb for my next book, I accidentally ran together two words. Instead of learning what centaury smells like, I was directed to centaurs. My spirit guides love to mess with me.

Celebrating small victories today, including THE BELTANE ESCAPE breaking the top 100 in two categories on Amazon!

Writers, time is running out to sign up for Krissi Dallas's fabulous online lab, “Kindle Vella: Growing Your Readership One Episode At A Time.”
https://palmspringswritersguild.org/event-5411110

99 cents Kobo ebook sale exclusively for US and Canadian readers! One week only. October 24 - 31, 2023.
https://bit.ly/3QhVE6K

InD'tale Magazine review compared Spell Struck to Practical Magic. I love Spell Struck because it has my favorite book boyfriend!

Time for my October review of Favorite Books Featuring Witches and Magic!

Ariella Moon This month I am recommending two very different novels that share common themes about families of the heart, coming of age, and magic.

This ominous cloud kept changing color. I spent the day preparing for my second ever hurricane. During my first hurricane, decades ago, I was on a student ship off the coast of Acapulco. Trust me. You do not want to be on a ship during a hurricane!

The morning began so peacefully. Trying to not think about the hurricane heading my way.

The tally so far for the me vs. the apparently invisible, vicious, insatiable mosquito hiding somewhere under my desk:

Mosquito: 8 bites, causing huge welts.
Me: 0 kills.

I am now wearing simmering resentment along with long white pants. Probably a good time to write a battle-to-the-death scene.

Beautiful Brilliant Daughter flew down to Palm Springs for the premier of the Barbie movie! The Regal Cinema had costumes available, so Mackenzie dressed in a man-sized overall. Engineering Barbie! (She is in real life, an electrical engineer). Great movie (though I hated the opening scene), and a great mother/daughter outing.

The theater was packed with men and women dressed in pink (I didn't see any young children.) One teen wore a beautiful Barbie ballgown.

Thank you, Donna Fitzgerald, for organizing and hosting yesterday's author event at the Palm Springs Cultural Center! Here is Donna during set-up before the audience arrived.

8 days until my featured book reading with H. Les Brown at the Palm Springs Cultural Center! Thank you, D. Marie Fitzgerald, for organizing and hosting the event.

Don't you hate it when a tv series finale leaves you depressed, confused, or both?

Interesting cloudscape after my presentation (on zoom) to the Central Oregon Writers Guild. Thank you, Denice Hughes Lewis for inviting me to speak. Such a wonderful, lively writing group!

I am super excited to present "Diabolical Devices For Creating Page-Turning Fiction" to the Central Oregon Writers Guild on May 9, 2023!
Plot twists, reversals, red herrings, and chapter cliffhangers are just a few of the devices that will keep readers up all night swearing, "Just one more chapter!" Writers will discover how to avoid sagging plots and amp up their writing.

Learn more at:

https://centraloregonwritersguild.com/index.html

Let's get magical!

In “Magical Tools for Every Writer’s Toolbox,” award-winning author Shaman Ariella Moon will aid participants in safely accessing unseen realms, where they will discover and work with supportive energies and entities beneficial to their writing career. This will not be a typical writing craft class!

Learn more at: https://palmspringswritersguild.org/event-4924949

It’s not hard…

I have been eating Dove dark chocolate hearts to get in the mood for Valentine's Day.

Margaret Lucke is coming to the Palm Springs Writers Guild via zoom this Friday, January 13, 2023 to teach "From Brilliant Idea to Successful Publication." Time is running out to register! Learn more at:
http://ariellamoon.blogspot.com/

This is so cool!

Same place, once a month, but not the same time. Italy.
Captured By Ciro Russo
✅ Link: https://t.ly/TrHT

After a New Year's Eve rain, clean air and beautiful skies. Best wishes to all in 2023!

I love everything about this!

Love it! ❤️

Words to live by.

The antidote to Thanksgiving stress? Take some time each day to escape into the fantasy worlds of books.

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Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2y5bATJ
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Back when I was an unpublished newbie writer, I won a critique from author Alice Gaines. Thanks to Alice's great advice, I not only came to understand Point of View, I later taught writing labs on the subject. Now I am pleased my former mentor, and Alicia Rasley whose articles and books on writing have helped so many over the years, will be teaching POV and Deep POV for the Palm Springs Writers Guild on November 17.
https://palmspringswritersguild.org/event-4906281

Palm Springs Writers Guild - Writing Lab: "POV and Deep POV" with Alice Gaines and Alicia Rasley

Meet Nina, whom I hope was able to go back to sleep after our chance encounter and my unexpected, but fabulous lesson in falconry.

I recently discovered that my secret nickname among my friends at the House of the Goddess is Red Pen, because I correct spelling, grammar, and tense errors on ritual drafts. Maybe the name was Red Pencil. I am not sure. I edited the conversation in my head as it was relayed.