Audrey Hughey designs planners, writes fiction, and works diligently to help her fellow authors. Although she currently writes horror and thrillers, sheβs as eclectic in her writing as in her reading. When sheβs not submerged in the worlds of fiction and planning, sheβs caring for her family, enjoying nature, or finding more ways to bring a little more light into the world.
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Graphic: Editing Deep Dive: Immediate Feedback, Tailored Advice, and Interactive Hot Seats
Hi Reader,
The retreat schedule continues to fill up as we carefully design each day to maximize your potential for learning, action, and enjoyment.
One of our favorite things to do is our Editing Deep Dive. In this hot-seats session, we break out into three rooms, and you get to choose the editor you'd like to connect with. Using previously submitted work (find submission instructions inside the course site 14 days prior to Day 1 of our retreat), each editor will work through the manuscript to coach the writer, giving constructive feedback and examples to improve the manuscript.
Typically, when submitting your work, we ask you to identify which kind of feedback you'd like us to focus on in our review of your manuscript: developmental, copyediting, line edits, or proofreading.
This is a great way to get a quick win and level up your writing if you know you need some help in that area.
If you've participated in these sessions over the past years, please hit reply - I'd love to know what your favorite part of the editing hot seats was?
Graphic: 2026 Virtual Spring Writing Retreat March 27-29, 2026 3 Days of Creativity, Learning, and Friendship audreyhughey.com/2026vswr
The schedule is filling up fast, and I'm going to pop in a couple times this week to share some of the latest additions with you.
As with every year, we spend the retreat mornings (March 27-29, 2026 -- Friday, Saturday, & Sunday) in group writing sprints. We use visual and auditory prompts, as well as offer other story prompts to help get your creativity flowing.
After lunch, we have classes, workshops, and panels. Each day has a theme to help us keep things organized:
Saturday: Pre-publishing - editing (including software and working with editors), formatting, covers, launch prep, publishing, etc.
Sunday: Post-publishing - marketing, sales, software, planning, advertising, events, income generation, mindset, wellness, etc.
Here are three more of the classes already scheduled for our retreat:
Friday
Graphic: Historical Fiction: Writing the Past Where the Records Go Quiet
Saturday
Graphic: Editing Deep Dive: Immediate Feedback, Tailored Advice, and Interactive Hot Seats
Sunday
Graphic: Crafting Digital Sales Ecosystems
Reminder
As a little celebration of my birthday, I've got a bonus with options:
If you order your retreat ticket during the Early Bird period, you'll get my new class "Reset Your Writing Rhythm for Spring" for FREE!
The standard price for this one-time workshop is $37 if you want to buy it separately. That said, if you don't want to join the virtual retreat but you do want the class, you can purchase it separately this week for $19 (because my birthday is the 19th). The discount is automatically applied, no code needed. π
Graphic: Reset Your Writing Rhythm for Spring
The class will take place live on Wednesday, March 4th at 2pm EST, and the replay will be available the same day, along with a printable workbook and the class slides.
Print copies of your own books! Seriously, these discounts are a great time to stock up and quality copies of your titles, whether they're for in-person sales, book mail, signings, etc.
Print copies of your friends' work! π π
I highly recommend Lulu because I love the quality of their copies and because 99% of the time, their customer service is extraordinary -- and their customer service involves communicating with actual human beings. Can you believe it? π
The code is: MANUSCRIPT15
And it's valid through February 27th.
Latest Anthology Release
Picture: Love, Hope, & Second Chances: A Valentine's Day Romance Anthology
Our latest ATA anthology is live and out in the world! We've been working on a romance anthology for a while, but we finally overcame the obstacles and got it published.
There are four stories this time, but the total comes in at just under 80k words! (79,846 words!)
This anthology is:
β Romance β Sweet, heartwarming, feel-good β Contemporary β Closed door β Includes mature love, second chances, and cynics giving love a chance again.
or (our fave for automatic royalty split and higher author royalties)β β βLULUβ
If you grab a pretty paperback edition, you can use that code I shared to get it at a discount, too! π
(The code is: MANUSCRIPT15 And it's valid through February 27th.)
What classes have you been wanting to see at retreats or conferences? Or what do you need the most help with in your writing life right now? Hit reply and let me know. π
Warmest wishes,
Audrey
Sparkling Diamond drink with cotton candy on top - from my Bridgerton Brunch π
Audrey Hughey designs planners, writes fiction, and works diligently to help her fellow authors. Although she currently writes horror and thrillers, sheβs as eclectic in her writing as in her reading. When sheβs not submerged in the worlds of fiction and planning, sheβs caring for her family, enjoying nature, or finding more ways to bring a little more light into the world.
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