About the Retreat

Close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting amidst a grove of stunning aspen trees, quaking in the mountain breeze and turning golden right before your very eyes. Now imagine that setting is creekside, allowing you to hear the rushing water echo off the majestic California Eastern Sierra Mountains, with perhaps deer or other wildlife sauntering only feet from you. Now, open your eyes, because that dream is about to become reality for only four lucky writing Adventurers.

Whether you are an aspiring writer, a debut author, or an experienced bestseller, this intimate retreat will help stimulate your writing life with fresh mountain air as you spend 4 nights/3 days in a private mountain home at an elevation of 8,500 feet, in beautiful and secluded Aspendell, California, where professional photographers flock each fall for one of the most stunning displays of aspen foliage in the world.

Envelope yourself in writing, mentoring, camaraderie, and eating pie with an intimate group of fellow writers and AMY WALLEN, author of the upcoming How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies: Sweet and Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life.

This retreat is ideal for writers of any level who want to open up their writing through their senses. If you are writing a novel, memoir, essays, or stories, and want to learn about starting or invigorating a writing life through rigorous discussion, supportive feedback, intimate conversations in a gorgeous and delicious environment, this retreat will provide craft lessons, critique, Q&A, with time and space to do just that.

Writing is difficult, so why not make the writing life delectable? Hiking, sitting still in nature, breathing in fresh air, communing with friends, eating and imbibing – these are all part of the writing life, whether to mull a scene or to stir up memories. But to have a writing life, first we must write. And, write we will.

To register: Contact Susan McBeth at 619-300-2532 or susan@adventuresbythebook.com for Registration Agreement