Forum: Savvy Author's Announcements

Pitch your book to MM Pollard of Black Velvet Seductions Acquisitions editor, MM Pollard, will be taking six line pitches on Friday March 30th from 9 a.m to midnight on the Savvy Blog. We are particularly interested in acquiring... • Western historical romance – especially erotic western historical romance – think things in the early Sarah McCarty phase here – Promises Series and early Hell’s Eight Series. • Character driven (as opposed to world driven) paranormal romance.

For those who would like a guided tour around Savvy Authors, I'll be hosting a webinar this evening at 9 p.m. EST. It's a great time to get your questions answered about how to set up your penname/profile and get more information about the resources available. For more information, click here for the events page: http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=912 I also wanted to note that we are trying out a new webinar software that will hopefully take care of any audio issues...

We've added a new feature to the Savvy Authors website this week. Now you can add your twitter and facebook usernames and they'll show up on all of your posts with links to follow you. : ) Add your social networking information by going to My Savvy -> My Profile (right in the middle of the page) Want to see it in action? Look left at my profile. ; ) : ) ~Liz

Hi Everyone, If you have questions about the Savvy Authors site, or haven't had a chance to explore everything Savvy has to offer, stop by tonight and I'll take you through a guided tour: http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/showevent.php?eventid=780 For those who have already registered, I'll be sending out the email around 6 p.m. EST with the login information. Thanks and I hope to see you there!

Savvy Authors is proud to announce a new tool added as a complement to the Autocritter tool... Cliche Finder! From the Resources menu, Premium members may now select "Cliche Finder" to be taken to a form where one can paste in a scene, chapter or even an entire manuscript. After clicking submit, the submission is returned with all of the cliches highlighted for easy discovery. :) Enjoy! ~The Savvy Crew

Well, this has probably been the least smooth website upgrade I've ever done, and I apologize. I copied all 150 tables by hand at 1am last night (new website tables had different structures so that's the only way to migrate) and then by 3am I was ready to rename the old vb folder and move the test folder over... Only our hosting company wouldn't allow me to remove the vb folder while it was still in use. Since Savvy is worldwide (YAY!), our servers were being pinged all night long so I never...

Come and join us tonight in the Newbie Central chatroom for a Meet and Greet Chat. http://www.savvyauthors.com/vb/chatlobby.php Kris from Writer's Court and JoJo from Pimp My Pitch will be in attendance. I'll also be giving away another craft book to a lucky attendee. It's perfect time to ask questions about the site and its fabulous features!

Join us tonight (Aug. 17th) as we host our first Savvy Meet and Greet Chat at 9 p.m. EDT. If we have a decent turnout, I hope to make this a bi-weekly or monthly event. We'll go over some of the great features offered here at Savvy Authors and highlight upcoming events. Have questions :confused: - this is a good time to get them answered. I hope to see you there!

Savvy Authors would like to offer a Welcome Packet to new members that would include an overview of site features, including how to manage account settings, subscriptions, join groups, use the autocritter, etc. If anyone has a little extra time and would like to offer their services to not only help the community but help get our new members acclimated and involved faster, please send me an email at liz@savvyauthors.com. Remember, volunteering does a body good! Thank you!

You've joined a group, you've started making new friends, maybe you've even been doing Boot Camp for the last three weeks... You're totally loving Savvy Authors and now you're wondering how you can get more involved? How can you help this great community grow? Well, don't despair! Savvy Authors is planning on putting on a FREE mini-conference Jul 28-Aug 1st for those not attending the writer's conference in Orlando. We've already lined up 10 free mini-workshops and goodie bags, etc, but we...

The new Savvy Point Exchange module is ready for beta testing. If you'd like to be one of the testers for this exciting new feature and please email liz@savvyauthors.com. We need both published authors needing promo and unpublished authors wishing to offer promo and the purchasing items with acquired points. For this initial round of testing, we'd prefer tech-savvy volunteers. Thanks!

Literary intern, C.A. Marshall, will be hosting a weekly column in the Learning Center where users can email her your queries at askanintern@savvyauthors.com for her impressions, feedback, suggestions. Every Wednesday, she'll choose a query and post it to the group with her comments on what worked and what didn't. Don't miss this great opportunity to get feedback from someone who reads and evaluates hundreds of queries a week!