Check out the workshops starting on February 23:

• NEW! Story World Building:Where do you start? with Rebekah R. Ganiere: February 23 to March 22
• NEW! Finding Your Voice in Adult Fiction: A Genre-by-Genre Writing Workshop with Irene Roth: February 23 to March 22

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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Happy Monday! We have some AMAZING workshops starting on Monday.





Check out the workshops starting on February 16:

• NEW! Telling Your Story: Introduction to Websites, Newsletters, and Blogs with Lisa Rabey: February 16 to March 15
• AS REQUESTED: Learn the Secrets of Creating Plot Twists with Steve Shrott: February 16 to March 1

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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CHECK OUT THE WORKSHOPS STARTING NEXT WEEK!





Check out the workshops starting on February 9:

• Fairy Tale Retellings with Deb Bailey: February 9 to February 22
• Microfiction - Creating Award Winning Stories in 100 Words or Less with Robin Jeffrey: February 9 to February 22

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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Hi, I’m Rosalba!
I’m an editor and proofreader joining this community to support fellow writers and talk shop. I work across the entire manuscript lifecycle, from developmental editing (big-picture structure) to copy and line editing (flow and voice), and finally proofreading for that crisp, finished polish.

I’m a firm believer that editing is a partnership. My goal is always to protect the author's unique voice while helping the story reach its full potential.

I’m looking forward to connecting with you all and being a part of this creative space. Feel free to reach out if you have questions about the editing process or just want to chat about all things books

Feeling like this?



Yep! It's February next week. Where did January go? If you are anything like me, you are now looking to get your manuscript ready for pitchfest in March. And yes, we have an editing workshop to help you.
































Check out the workshops starting on February 2:

• REVAMPED! Sports Romance - it's more than Xs and Os with Cassandra Carr: February 2 to February 15
• NEW: Embrace the Hot Mess: Editing Your First Draft with Christina Hennemann: February 2 to March 1

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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When you’re deep in a writing streak, it’s easy to lose track of time and strain your eyes without realizing it. One little trick I’ve picked up is using a plain dark screen when I need a moment to regroup or check whether my monitor itself is part of the distraction. It gives my eyes a calming break and makes it easier to spot glare, dust, or lighting issues that can sneak into long hours of typing. If you ever want a quick way to do that without installing anything, you can try it here. It’s such a small step, but it sometimes makes it easier to jump right back into creativity.

Feeling stuck in the January blues? February is just around the corner! But keep your momentum with your writing goals with SavvyAuthor workshops!





Check out the workshops starting on January 26th:

• NEW! Tropes, And How To Use Them with Kate McMurray: January 26 to February 8
• REQUESTED BY MEMBERS: What Fan Fiction Gets Right and What We Can Learn from It with Tere Michaels: January 26 to February 8

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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Hi. I’m Mara, an aspiring author in northern Virginia. I served twenty years on active duty in the Navy and attended law school after retiring. So writing fiction is my third career. I’ve completed a very rough draft of my historical mystery novel and am currently working on major revisions to the second act. I belong to Sisters in Crime, and one of the members recommended Savvy Authors. Glad to be here!

Can you believe it's nearly the middle of January? We are almost in Week Three of 20216!

Check out the ALL NEW workshops we have starting next Monday.






Check out the workshops starting on January 19th:

• NEW INTENSIVE! Brilliant Openings: How to Grab an Editor or Agent on Page One with Anoop Judge: January 19 to March 1 (Five-week hands-on workshop!)
• NEW! Unlock the Power of Action and Reaction (Understanding Scene and Sequel) with Hillary DePiano: January 19 to February 1

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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We want you to stay on track with all your writing and publishing goals. Check out the all NEW workshops starting on Monday January 12th.





Check out the workshops starting on January 12th:

• NEW! The Trail of Breadcrumbs: Foreshadowing Your Story Cynthia Owens: January 12 to February 1
• NEW! Using Video with Your Fiction Writing Journey with June Diehl: January 12 to February 1

If you have any questions, please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com

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HAPPY 2026!!!

It's a new year and new opportunity to meet your writing and publishing goals. Let 2026 be the year that you achieve and thrive all your writing and publishing goals. Please reach out to RJ at SavvyAuthors dot com if you have any questions or need any information.



Check out the workshops starting on January 5th:

• NEW! Create a Scene with Joan Koster: January 5 to February 1
• NEW! Let's Commit a Crime: Backstory for Murderous or Larcenous Mysteries with Beth Daniels: January 5 to February 1
• RESTARTS: SavvyAuthors' Accountability Group: January 5th

UPDATED 11/24

This is all the agent requests. Thanks for your patience.

Stephanie Wheeler at Spinning Wheel Stories

Please send full manuscripts to [email protected]
Please include "SavvySub" in subject line.

• Glenn Erick Miller: Guitar Boy
• Glenn Etick Miller: Homes
• Mary helen Berg: How Far is Almost There
• Jacqueline Lindsey: A Best Friend's Holiday
• Andrea Denish: How to Make Friends with a monster
• TexasGal5: Anna and Her Horses
• Janelle Dila: Trees Breathe
• Bri Lawyer: Don't Squish Me
• Cat18: The Christmasmouse competition & Christmas Kitchen Chaos
• RMScott: Let go Pinecone
• Violet Cheerful Karkadann: Little Owl's First Christmas
• danielleturmaud: Be Brave, Be Brave, Be Brave We can change the world today
• Erin Will: Listen with your heart
• Natasha.garnetT2: From the Crickets to the Stars

Janet Bruins at Picnic Heist Publishing

• Please ask the writers to send anything they’d like — a completed manuscript, a developed pitch, sketches, notes, autobiography... up to a maximum of two pages.
  Ideally, one page should focus on the story, and the other on the marketing plan. The marketing plan should outline what they, as the author, would personally do to help bring their book to more readers.
• All materials should be submitted to [email protected] with the subject line: Submission – Autumn Pitchfest. Deadline: end of November.
• Please also remind the writers to only submit if they are ready to sign a book contract. Whether or not they are represented by an agent, if we decide to move forward, they should be prepared to do so without any encumbrances.

Requests:

• Anna and Her Horses
• Cowboys Don't Cry
• Rivkah's Riverboat Journey
• Wild Threads
• Rakhis for Ruhi
• Heeya's Holi Hullabaloo
• A Year in the Garden
• Bama Yorker
• Homes

* Please note Melissa Rechter is now at Sourcebooks at Poisoned Pen Press. *

Please send the first 3 chapters and synopsis from to [email protected].

• THE NEW WIFE by Heatherly Bell
• A KILLING COLD by Alice Fitzpatrick
• POTIONS UNINCORPORATED by Iris Andersi

Rachel Gilmer at Sourcebooks

Please submit full manuscript and synopsis to this email address: [email protected]

• THE MASQUERADE
• DARK HORSE
• MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR
• UNDER GROUND
• The World of No
• DISRUPTED
• THE MONSTER THEY MADE
• DAD BODIES
• A HARMONY OF WITCHES
• Welcoming Tan Koala
• Nursing Her Fractured Family

Katie McGuire at Alcove Press/Crooked Lane Books

Please send pitch/query letter, full manuscript, and a synopsis (if they have one ready to go). They can send the materials to: [email protected]

• A Fake Date for Diwali by Shreya North
• DARK HORSE by Jessica Wendi Abel
• The Ice Between Us by Adam S Reisinger
• DAD BODIES by Bryan van Bodegom
• PROHIBITION OF THE REBEL WITCH by Christi Playford
• Riding in Cars with Monsters by Michelle Ogilvy
• CELEBRITY AUTOPSY by Elizabeth McKinnon

Josh Gregory at Albert Whitman

Please submit query, synopsis, and full manuscript to [email protected]

• Naomi on Top of the World, by Sharon Peerless
• High Flyer, by Lori Knutsen
• I Won’t Wear Pants, by Kim Collazo
• Alligator Arrested, by Roxanne Dooley

Tova Seltzer at Holiday House

Please email the full manuscripts to me here at [email protected], with “SavvyAuthors Request” in the subject line, and the pitch included in the email body would be great. The manuscripts can be word docs, PDFs or just pasted in the body.

• CATACLYSMIC CATICORNS by Rachel Scott
• PERFECT BLEND by Elyse Trevers

This is all the agent requests. Thanks for your patience.

Jacqueline Lipton at The Tobias Literary Agency

Authors should send query letter and first 20-30 pages (wherever a logical break appears in the text) to this QM link: Query Jacqui Lipton at Tobias Literary Agency and note SAVVY AUTHORS FALL PITCHFEST 2025 in the relevant box on the form.

• HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE PEOPLE (Jessica Wendi Abel)
• The Kokeshi Killer, A Tokyo Bento Box Mystery (Janice Ishizaka)
• The Amicus Vampires (Thérésa Hedges)
• The Essence Project (T.K Kelly)
• OVERSHADOW (Chrissy Hicks)
• Run of Luck (Elizabeth Haines)
• French Omelette, or How I’ve Come to Own a Victorian Piano (Rumiko Handa)
• NIGHT HAG (Lynn Grace Wong)
• LIES WE TELL (Mel)
• Salt and Burn (Lindsay N Marshall)
• A Killing Cold (Alice Fitzpatrick)
• THE COASTAL GRANDMA'S GUIDE TO MURDER (Sarah Tompkins)
• Shadows of Immortals (Jennifer Wile)
• When The Dead Speak (Katrina Holloway)

Lauren Khan, Associate Literary Agent at FinePrint Literary Management

Please submit requested material to: Query Lauren Khan at FinePrint Literary Management and ensure you mention that received a request from SavvyAuthors Autumn Pitchfest.

• The Essence Project, Author: T.K Kelly
• YESTERDAY AGAIN, Katherine D. Caldwell
  The Weight of Silence, Erin Kettle
• Manuscript for Murder, C. Deanne Rowe
• Salt and Burn, Lindsay N Marshall
• Disrupted, C.Daley
• Lies We Tell, Mel
• The Garden Plot, Andra Stanton
• THE COASTAL GRANDMA'S GUIDE TO MURDER, Sarah Tompkins
• Theatre of Forbidden Desires, Emily Brauer Rogers
• SINCERELY, YOURS, Nikki H. Rose
• UNDER GROUND, Susan Burdorf
• Miss-Trusted, Janice Bremec Blum
• Print Me a Lie, Peyton Garland
• When I Knew Everything, Amie Steir
• A Librarian's Guide To Time Travel, Ariel Kleber

Jordy Albert at Booker Albert Agency

Please submit synopsis and first three chapters sent as a Word doc to [email protected]

• Blood of the Giants by TM Sellers
• Caravan by Glenn Erick Miller
• Wings of Ash and Fury by Katya Stead
• Keep Choosing You by David Kraine
• Tacos del Soul by Steve Palmer
• Sisters of Stars and Storms by Lauren H. Dowdle

Karly Dizon, Literary Agent at Fuse Literary

Please submit first 10 pages to Query Karly Dizon at Fuse Literary

• LaurenDSmith || Spare School: Royal Shadows
• TheresaHedges || Dyfi Drake and the Mask of Marwoldragi
• J.M. Dover || Damaged Magic
• Molly Haniszewski || The Book of the Ocean
• Katya Stead || Wings of Ash and Fury
• LynnGraceWong || Night Hag
• jcmlott || Magic Gloves
• Delightful Peach Basilisk || Among the Roses Red
• Lisa Roberts || Hood Dreams

Shania Soler, Junior Literary Agent at Metamorphosis

Please follow the requested information at this link: https://querytracker.net/query/shaniansoler/SavvyAuthors

• C. Daley "Disrupted"
• C. Daley "Invisible Truth"
• L.E.E. Smith "Nokken"
• Lynn Grace Wong "Night Hag"
• Andra Stanton "The Garden's Plot"
• Ivy Quin "Van Helsing Academy"
• Katya Stead "Wings of Ash and Fury"
• Hilary Kingman "Stonefall"
• Victoria Jayne "A Harmony of Witches"
• Christi Playford "Prohibition of the Rebel Witch"
• Elaine Buckner "A Penchant for Possession"
• LaDonna Praise "All the Good Girls go to Hell"
• Katie O'Donoghue "Feathers of the Forgotten"
• Theresa Hedges "The Amicus Vampires"
• Adam S Reisinger "The Ice Between Us"
• Jeff Lakusta "Game, Set, Snatched"
• Dan Marz "The Masquerade"
• Meredith Hardt "The Girls Who Shook Mountains"
• Steve Palmer "Tacos del Soul"
• L. D. Rex "A Portrait of Madness" and "Roots of Revenge"

A.J. Van Belle, Junior Literary Agent at The Booker Albert Literary Agency

Please complete the info and submit the first ten pages to Query A.J. Van Belle at The Booker Albert Literary Agency

• THE HIGHEST BATTLEGROUND by Vanessa Nirode
• SALT AND BURN by Lindsay N Marshall
• THE BOOK OF THE OCEAN by Molly Haniszewski
• MIDWINTER HUNT by Starla Rajavuori
• GALILEO MURPHY'S LAW OF DISASTERS by Allison P. Lee
• A PENCHANT FOR POSSESSION by Elaine Buckner
• A CAVERNOUS DARK by Alexandra Claus
• UNDERWATER DETECTIVES: CORAL REEF MYSTERY by Cherilyn Chin

Hannah Sheppard, Literary Agent at Hannah Sheppard

Please note, Hannah usually only accepts submissions between the 1st and 7th of the month via the submission form on our website, but for SavvyAuthors requests, she’s happy to receive (pasted into the body of an email, no attachments), a cover letter, first 5000 words and a synopsis to [email protected]

• 14 - A Fake Date for Diwali
• 21 - The Essence Project
• 23 - Keep Choosing You
• 31 - The Masquerade
• 33 - The Girls Who Shook Mountains
• 34 - The Lost Girls of Roanoake
• 85 - Theatre of Forbidden Desires
• 103 - Sincerely Yours
• 125 - What Festers in the Forest
• 137 - Of Salt & Spray

Nikki Carrero, Assistant Agent at The Rights Factory

Please complete the info and submit the first ten pages to Query Nikki Carrero at The Rights Factory

• Jasmine Ahmad's NOW AND THEN
• Katherine D. Caldwell's YESTERDAY AGAIN
• Angela Crystal Williams' ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PIECES
• Gabriela St Luke's LAST CHANCE MATCH
• Peyton Garland's PRINT ME A LIE
• Charlene Groome's THE DATING ADVENTURES OF MYA MORLEY
• Sarah Carroll's FALLING FOR THE ESCORT
• Ashley Diers' SPELL-BROKEN HEARTS
• Andrea M Hutchinson's UNTITLED (no title provided)
• Linda Vick's PROMISES UNDONE

Andie Smith, Associate Agent at Creative Media Agency

For novels:

Please submit your query, synopsis, and first 3 chapters via the link below. Note "Savvy Authors" in the pitch event text box.

For picture books:

Please submit your query, synopsis/blurb, and full text in the chapter box. Please upload any applicable art and select "Conference Request" as the genre. Note "Savvy Authors" in the pitch event text box.

Submission Link: https://QueryTracker.net/query/AndieSmith/PitchEvent

• A Fake Date for Diwali by Shreya North
• Dyfi Drake and the Mask of Marwoldraig by Thérésa Hedges
• The Ice Between Us by Adam S Reisinger
• When the Summer's Over by M.H. Waverly
• Game, Set, Snatched by Jeff Lakusta
• LET GO, PINECONE by Rachel Scott
• BLACKBIRD by Krista Barrett
• CHRYSANTHEMUM CORNER by Kelly Clasen
• Wicked Witches Don't Use Pacifiers by Alexa E. Silva
• BUZZY BEEDY by K.J.Bricker
• SITTING THROUGH THE SEASONS by Daryl-Lynne Gottier
• DEAD COLD & BURIED by Alison Thayer

Jackie Kruzie, Literary Associate with Focused Artists

Please submit the first ten pages using this link: Query Jackie Kruzie at Focused Artists

• DRIVE LIKE A GIRL by Patti J. Kurtz, a contemporary YA
• THE DEADLY DALLIANCE by Cheryl Ann Smith, a Historical Cozy Mystery
• THE INVISIBLE TRUTH by C. Daley, a Speculative Fiction
• DARK WINTER SYMPHONY by Starla Rajavuori, a MG Fantasy
• A PORTRAIT OF MADNESS by L.D. Rex, a Paranormal Horror

Jared Johnson, Associate Agent at Olswanger Literary

Please submit your pitch letter, synopsis, and first 20 pages to: Query Jared Johnson at Olswanger Literary

• MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, RJ Hawthorne
• Van Helsing Academy, Ivy Quin
• Nøkken, L.E.E.Smith
• Salt and Burn, Lindsay N Marshall

Hi there! I'm based in Michigan and grateful to be part of this pitch fest! I'm seeking representation for my upmarket debut. Eager to meet everyone!

(Also: If it's not obvious from my username I am new and would love any tips on how to make your actual name your UN! )

Hi! I’m Kristen from Minnesota and I write historical horror.

I live between Boston and the Berkshires and I've completed a Civil War Historical which I'm pitching now. I didn't see many requests for historical among the editors and agents. Did I miss something? My themes of the story are timeless: coming of age, sexism, racism and friendships that transcends time and place. Judith Carlough

I write picture books, but am also learning the craft for Women's Fiction.

Hi, I’m a picture book author from Memphis, Tennessee.

Greetings, writers! One of my CPs told me about this group and the upcoming Pitchfest. I'm excited to participate! I write mostly lyrical and STEM-themed PBs, and my debut PB is coming out in 2027 with The Little Press. I also write MG fiction and plan to pitch a cozy mystery that I revised this past summer as part of an Inked Voices mentorship with author Sylvia Liu. Good luck to everyone pitching!

Hi everyone! Lovely to meet you. I'm Shania, currently located on the East Coast in Maine. I'm a junior agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency. You can find me on X at beyond_literary. I look forward to reading your pitch and meeting some other agents.

Hi, I'm new.
My name is Charisma Williams and I'm a writer like we all are here.
I'm here to connect with other writers and learn.

Hi! I’m Adriana, kidlit author from California.

I'm a science writer, an author, and a former computer programmer/systems designer. Most of my work is on STEAM subjects and I have a special interest in how technology is used to advance medicine, protect the environment, and save wildlife.
Cheers and good luck to all,
Linda

Hi,

I'm Megan Castle and joined Savvy Authors in time for the Pitchfest. Feeling grateful to be here. In this season I am writing middle grade speculative and sci-fi. I am shopping my first MG literary sci-fi novel. I've been writing most of my life and was published in the early 2000's. Since then, I've been raising kids, teaching, and writing part time... until now. I have a master's of professional writing from USC and a master's in education with an emphasis in upper level Language Arts. Stories are my passion.

Can anyone give me some pointers on their experience at Pitchfest? Did you take pitch classes to prepare? Is there a limit to how many agents and editors we can pitch to? And how has this worked out for you? What have you learned so far? Do published authors use Pitchfest as well?

Wishing everyone peaceful vibes, confidence, and teachability on this fabulous platform.

Smiles,
Megan