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Pie & Passion

  • Saturday, October 07, 2023
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  • The Mizell Center, 480 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

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  • Non-Members pay $155 for each Insider Workshop. Please note that if you choose to join the Guild before registering for this event you will pay a $75 Membership fee, and then the Member rate of $80 for the event—the same $155 total, but you’ll then gain all the benefits of membership in the Guild (including the Membership rate of $80 at any future Workshop).
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Announcing our next In-Person Workshop

Pie & Passion
Amy Wallen



About Amy Wallen

Amy Wallen is the bestselling author the memoir, When We Were Ghouls, the novel, MoonPies and Movie Stars and most recently, the delightfully delicious, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies: Sweet & Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life. 


Description of talk:

Recipes for a delicious life! Amy shares her secrets and insights into her writing life: her inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure and the pain in achieving literary goals; on how she started out and how she hopes to continue. She will outline some golden rules for staying on track and talk candidly about what goes wrong as well as right. Be ready to put pen to paper or tips to key board. And pie!

Takeaways:

  • What writing a book looks, feels, and even Tastes like.
  • Why Revision is your friend.
  • When you can type “The End.” 
  • Who is this creature called Published? 
  • Where to always find Joy and Laughter in the process.

Students need only bring a dream to write a book, an appetite for pie, and a sense of humor. 

REGISTER

Unable to attend, no problem, all registrants will receive a video replay of this event.

To receive a full refund minus a $25 cancellation processing fee, attendees must cancel their registration 5 days before the event. No refunds will be given after that time. To cancel your registration, go to palmspringswritersguild.org and click on the blue icon at the top right of any page. Enter user name and password and click "LOG IN". On the next screen click "My event registrations". Select event and cancel registration. 

We may take photos and/or videos at any of our events for promotional purposes.

Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m. 

Ready to become a member of the Palm Springs Writers Guild? Please click here.

Event Contact: Eduardo Santiago
santiagogo@aol.com