Patricia Charpentier is offering a program to transform your writing, with the next session beginning in August. The program is focused on editing every and all types of writing: novels, memoirs, articles, nonfiction books, blog posts, short stories, and even letters.

The Edit Like an Expert coaching program includes:

• 4 weeks of video training modules
• 2 live, group telephone calls
• 1 one-on-one half-hour coaching session
• in-depth, editorial review of one 2000-word piece worksheets, handouts, and other written materials
• on-demand access to training modules for one six months

The total program price is $297, the video-only package is $197, and both have a 100% money back guarantee.

For registration and more information, click here.

Today  from 6:30pm-8:30pm, join the LifeArt Studio community to explore how to grow as an artist by sharing work with a safe and supportive audience. We’ll talk about the book Show Your Work by author Austin Kleon; and hear from local poet, blogger and essayist Susan Lilley, leader of the writing group “The Gloria Sirens.” This casual event offers encouragement and inspiration to stay on your creative path.

Located at Writer’s Block Bookstore, 124 Welbourne Ave, Winter Park.

At 7pm on Tuesday, July 7, join Writer’s Block Bookstore (24 E. Welbourne Ave, Winter Park) in a summer reading of I Called Him Necktie, by Milena Michiko Flasar.

About the book: Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori—a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction—in his parents’ home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he spends his days observing life around him from a park bench. Gradually he makes friends with Ohara Tetsu, a middle-aged salaryman who has lost his job but can’t bring himself to tell his wife, and shows up every day in a suit and tie to pass the time on a nearby bench. As Hiro and Tetsu cautiously open up to each other, they discover in their sadness a common bond. Regrets and disappointments, as well as hopes and dreams, come to the surface until both find the strength to somehow give a new start to their lives. This beautiful novel is moving, unforgettable, and full of surprises. The reader turns the last page feeling that a small triumph has occurred.