Join bestselling author, teacher, and TEDx presenter Jess Lourey to learn how to turn your experiences into healing fiction, followed by a wine and cheese reception celebrating the release of Unspeakable Things, her novelized retelling of growing up in a small Minnesota town where nothing is as quiet—or as safe—as it seems.

Join me for a tour of Paris’ finest female writers and St. Germain’s tasty Patisseries

“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice…”

Do you have a passion for storytelling but less so for marketing? Read on for a simple plan for identifying your brand.

You’ve always wanted to be a writer. You have a head or notebook full of ideas, you read stories or watch movies and feel inspired, maybe you’ve even started your own article, short story, novel, or memoir. But then you get stopped somewhere short of your dream. You tell yourself you don’t have the skill or the time, and that maybe someday…

Do you want uninterrupted space and an extended time period to focus on your writing project? While a writing retreat can provide that, this year you might not have the time or budget to partake in one.  Instead, consider creating your very own personal writing retreat.