Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2021 Autumn Pitchfest and in particular thanks to the Editors and Publishers who reviewed the 513 stories and books pitched! Wow!

Read on for the list of requests received so far. We are waiting for updates from one Editor and this post will be updated when we get that.
Thanks for participating and don't forget to register for the 2022 Sweetheart Pitchfest!

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Cassiel Knight – Champagne Book Group

Please review send your material via our online submission form: Query Submission. We look forward to receiving and reviewing your work!

FULL MANUSCRIPTS:

• Princess of Sweetwater by Tess DeGroot
• Blood Promotion by M.J. Rose
• The Prince Charming School of Romance by Kim Findlay

PARTIAL MANUSCRIPTS:

• Reusable by Kaitlin Greco
• Gold: Heart of A Warrior by Eden Robins
• Magic in the Air by Adrianna Schuh
• A Motel by the Ocean by Susan Burdorf
• All Manor of Love by Susan Burdorf
• Maplewood Resort by Keri Bednar
• The Garden Plot by Andra Stanton
• One Man's Treasure by Eva Fox Mate
• Once Upon a Griffin by Carde Jean
• The Companion's Comeuppance by Adrianne Karasek
• Cupboard Love and Biscuit Crumbs by Susan Payne
• First Impressions by Elizabeth Donne
• Obviously Unrequited by Eilene Spear
• Worth the Risk by Carolyn Rae (Williamson)
• Second Chances by Tricia Saxby
• A Secret to Forgive by Tricia Saxby
• Say It With Flowers by Hannah Langdon

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Tule Publishing

Please refer to our submissions page (Submissions) for information on how to submit, what to include, etc.

Tule would like to request these pitches to be submitted:

• Magic in the Air by Adrianna Schuh
• A Time for Love by Jennifer Wilck
• All Manor of Love by Susan Burdorf
• Whiskey on our Shoes by Tonya Preece
• The Murder Blog by Sandra Gardner

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Lydia Sharp – Entangled Publishing

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention.
Entangled Publishing - Amara
Blood Promotion by M.J. Rose

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Sideways
The Weight of Silence by Dawn Miller’

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Entangled TEEN
A Crown of Fangs and Feathers

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Sideways
The Marsh House by HM Thomas

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Amara
Maplewood Resort by Keri Bednar

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Entangled TEEN
The Quiet Boy by Samantha Van Dine

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Entangled TEEN
The Pros and Cons of Dating Grey by Noelle Strader

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Amara
The Graveyard Keeper by Robin Jeffrey

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Entangled TEEN
The Rest of Our Story by Eden Robins

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Amara
A Spell of Dance and Silence by Lena Gibson

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Amara
In the Cards by Kat Turner

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Amara
First Impressions by Elizabeth Donne

Please submit a query, synopsis, and full manuscript to my attention here:
Entangled Publishing - Entangled TEEN
Back to Us by Natalie Duleba

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Deb Werksman – Sourcebooks Casablanca
Please send full proposal (manuscript, synopsis, pitch) to [email protected]

• Blood Promotion by M.J. Rose
• Promises by Linda Vick
• The Marsh House by HM Thomas
• The Girl Who Fled the Picture by Jane Anderson
• Detective Sergeant Mermaid by Stephanie Spann
• Eye of the Storm by Kelly Harper
• Sukidayo, Honey-Sensei! by BM Valedez
• The Garden Plot by Andra Stanton
• Rumble by RL Merrill and Sera Taino
• Heart of a Warrior by Eden Robins
• Pink Ribbon Perfection by Regina Morris
• Bless Your Heart and Other Southern Curses by Heather Leonard
• Compassion Fatigue by Viktoria Dahill
• A Stocking for Rudolph by Megan Besing
• A Werewolf in Wisconsin by Kay Phoenix

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Totally Entwined Group:

We would very much like to see for review the full manuscripts for the above books. Our submission guidelines can be found here Submission Guidelines - Totally Entwined Group for reference.

The list of full manuscripts we would like to see is as follows – divided into each publishing house;

Finch Books – YA

• A Crown of Fangs and Feathers – Sandy Butchers
• The Soul Keeper – Loraine Bowman
• A Walk in Your Shoes – Regina Brownell
• Humbly Yours, Juliet – Brieanna Wilkoff
• Fire From Blood – Mary Rose Luksha
• See Me As I Am – Cheryl D Wanner
• Shoot Straight, Stay Center – Shannon J Curtin
• The Unraveling of James Hayward – Krista Barrett
• Song of Wave and Shadow – Vanessa Barger

Totally Bound Publishing

• Blood Promotion – MJ Rose
• Reuseable – Kaitlin Greco
• In the Cards – Kat Turner
• Collision - The Kings of Haunted Rebellion 1 – Stella Blanche
• Second Chances – Tricia Saxby

Pride Publishing

• Devotion – Madelyn Denisch
• Back to Us – Natalie Duleba

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Changeling Press
Please refer to our submission guidelines at changelingpress.com/submissions.php for a list of what to include with your cover letter. Send all requested information and the complete manuscripts to [email protected]

• Blood Promotion by M.J. Rose
• The Shikari by Sevannah Storm
• 10,000 Hours by Anna Denisch
• THE BREEDING GAME by Robert D. Marshall, Jr.
• The Many Squandered Thing by Noel Stevenson
• BORROWED TIME by Robert D. Marshall, Jr.
• Just an Ordinary Love Stories by Juliette's Journals
• Sukidayo, Honey-Sensei! by B. M. Valdez
• Gold: Heart of A Warrior by Eden Robins
• Under the Tree of Life by Ruben D. Gonzales
• Run the Table: The Tease by John Lusher writing as Darin TaDream.

• Warrior of Eden by Fenley Grant
• Crunching her Numbers by Sylvana Farraday
• A Late Awakening by Noel Stevenson
• Murder on Lake Nebo by Ruben D. Gonzales
• The Spy & The Necromancer: A love story by Eliza Fyre
• BLU KITTY by Shannon Slique

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Yelena Casale - City Owl Press
Please submit the queries and the first 3 chapters to my email ([email protected]) with the Subject of SavvyAuthors PitchFest + name of manuscript

• Title: Falling for Buffalo Ridge; Author: Addey Vaters
• Title: Title: SECOND CHANCE COWBOY; Author: Kristy Anne
• Title: Crunching her Numbers; Author: Sylvana Farraday
• Title: Obviously Unrequited; Author: Eilene Spear
• Title: Sushi and Sea Lions; Author: Author: Rachel Corsini
• Title: A MOTEL BY THE OCEAN; Author: Author: Susan Burdorf
• Title: Learning to Surf; Author: HM Thomas
• Title: Whiskey on Our Shoes; Author: Tonya Preece
• Title: Best Laid; Author: Mary Rose Luksha
• Title: One Man's Treasure (Book 1 of the Hughes Brothers Trilogy); Author: Eva Fox Mate
• Title: Play it Again; Author: Kim Findlay
• Title: Would the Real Soulmate Please Stand Up; Author: Kim Findlay

Melinda Collins – Owl City Press
Please send your query and synopsis to me via Query Manager (Query Submission)

• Blood Promotion by MJ Rose
• The Orb Chronicles by Alexander Robins
• Once Upon a Griffin by Carde Jean
• Gold: Heart of a Warrior by Eden Robins
• The Spy & The Necromancer: A love story by Eliza Fyre

Theresa Cole – Owl City Press
Please submit your query at QueryManager.com/TCole.

• The Shikari by Sevennah Storm
• The Quiet Boy by Samantha Van Dine
• Once Upon a Griffin by Carde Jean
• eHumanity: Bootstrap by Nicole Sallak Anderson
• When in Rome by Jenna Bigelow
• Daywalker by Fenley Grant
• A Hunger for the Finer Things by Susan Burdorf

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Sword and Silk Books

We would ask authors to follow directions through our submissions page and note in their submission that it’s a SavvyAuthor request

Submissions | Sword and Silk

We would like to request the following:

Sukidayo, Honey-Sensei! by B. M. Valdez
ETHEREAL by Abigail Glenn
Blood Promotion by M.J. Rose
Pink Ribbon Perfection by Regina Morris
First Impressions by Elizabeth Donne
The Spy & The Necromancer: A love story by Eliza Fyre

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Stacy Abrams with Entangled Publishing – requests to come

Can anyone explain the different descriptions that are found in our profiles? I know we start off as scribblers. I noticed that I recently became an "ink-slinger", but I don't know why. And I've seen titles like "resident dreamer" as well. I'd like to know what all the hierarchy of titles are and how/when they are awarded.
Thanks!

Hello friends,

I am looking some good free EPUB readers for my Windows 10. Can anyone suggest some free EPUB reader that you like most?

Pitchfest is coming!

Pitches open at 9AM EST, Wednesday September 29 and close at 11:59 PM EST, Friday October 1​

See the full list of Agents and Editors!​

And if you need help with your pitch...we have Editors from Entangled lined up to help YOU! This starts Monday!

Entangled Publishing's Robin Haseltine

Entangled Publishing's Amy Acosta

Entangled Publishing's Heather Howland

Entangled Publishing's Alethea Spiridon

Hello!

We just wanted to clarify what each of our SavvyWriterCon events are.

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The SavvyCrew

Hi everyone,
I am a new writer and I am excited to join this community! I look forward to interacting with and learning from you.

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this is my test post. there are many like it, but this one is mine. with me, my test post is useless. without my test post, I am useless.

I don't remember the quote past there, and I'm not trying to emulate that movie much, so there goes that.

anyway. let's hope this, my 456th (or something) message board, is as UI-friendly as others have been. once upon a time, I had 10K posts on another message board. That was some kind of experience.

[a lesson about verbs because let's just be real about my brand here. I'm the kind of person who would post a lesson on coordinating conjunctions as an april fools' day joke.]

Where can I find the Rules for writing the 3 line pitch for the Autumn Pitchfest? The link doesn't work or goes to an odd page.
Thanks.

I wandered into the Business Books section of Audible last week and grabbed this book: Atomic Habits by James Clear.

TLDR: to make sustainable change in your life, you have to change your systems not focus on goals. He proposes doing this by adding, removing, and stacking atomic habits (very small habits), and attach a time and place to all new habits you want to start. For example, if I want to write more often during the day, and I already read social media on the couch for a few minutes in the morning, I could add a habit:

where I write for 5 min on the couch in the morning after I check social media for 5 minutes.

His examples are things like he wanted to exercise more so he stacked 10 burpees onto his morning computer break:
I will do 10 burpees after I break from work in the morning but before I go to the kitchen to get a morning snack.

He makes other points as well, but one that stuck with me was that you have to see yourself as the person you want to be or as someone who already does what you want. Not, I want to quit smoking, but that I am a nonsmoker. Not that I want to be a writer, but that I am a writer.

It's making me rethink some ideas I have had about goals and think more about the systems (habits) in my life.

Cheers!

Hi Everyone! Believe it or not, I've been a member for over five years and the formatting here has changed a lot! Back then, I didn't say much and was just taking a class or two. Now, I want to get involved. I'm even thinking about becoming an instructor here. As a former English professor, writing full time as an indie publisher, and someone who has started a few critique groups (one at a Barnes & Noble that ran for several years), I'm excited to get to know you!

I'm really new here and will be lurking for a bit. I'm most interested in the articles and a critique partner!

Howdy. I'm Mel. I'm pre-published and working on my first contemporary romance. Don't mind me while I lurk and attempt to take in all of the resources available.

Hi, a very new writer working her way through her first manuscript. I have a highly superstitious character and thought this course would be helpful. This is my second course with Savvy Authors so not real familiar with things yet.

This is my first class with Pamela although i know her work. I'm excited, revved, curious... Look forward to meeting fellow classmates as the course progresses. I confess I'm not great on community chat boards, I will see if I can shift that but please don't take my absence, should there be one, as disinterest.

I'm new here and wanted to say hello.
I have written three novels and am currently querying the first one.
I can't wait for the country to open up again so I can get out and meet all the interesting people from the publishing world!
CJ

Hi Community!
I am new here and excited to meet you! I am a journalist and magazine editor with a long history in the corporate communications world, so I am interested in exploring my creative writing side.To date I have edited two books (both memoirs) and am hoping to start writing my first book.... but the title eludes me!

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* All topics should be actionable with something registrants can take and apply to their own writing careers.

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Introduction/background/bio and short lesson or spark for discussion is to be posted as early as possible EST on 9/10, a lesson/lecture posted on 9/11, and wrap-up on 9/12. A moderator will be assigned to assist with any issues or technical difficulties.

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Hello, I submitted a pitch last year to Cassie (Cassiel) Knight, Publisher at Champagne Book Group, during a Savvy Authors pitch event. She requested more chapters, which I submitted, but never heard back (six months ago). I sent off an email to her last month but didn't hear back from that either. Does anyone now if they are still in business? I'm more worried about Cassie than I am about my submission.

Hi all
We just sent out our 2021/22 Request for Proposals! So if you have a mad skill that other authors can use, read on!

Teach at SavvyAuthors!

As an author, we know you have a lot on your plate. So, why not make some extra cash with all the great information and hard lessons you’ve learned? You paid in sweat and coffee, now let that knowledge make extra cash for you by teaching at SavvyAuthors!

We provide the classroom infrastructure, an online moderator, promotion through our newsletter and social media channels, and all the administrative work. All you have to do is provide and post the content!

We are currently accepting workshop proposals for the end of June 2021 and into 2022.

We are on the lookout for craft workshops with clearly actionable content such as:

• Plotting especially beat sheets and fast drafting. Also interested in easy guides to character arcs or new takes on story structure.
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• Self-editing best practices and processes such as writing to market and working on a rapid release schedule. Think of ways to polish the first five or ten pages to get past the slush pile.
• Writing business materials such as crafting a blurb, query letter, or synopsis.

We are less interested in general interest, marketing, and business workshops.

• We’re still looking for great workshops on these topics, but there will be a limited number of spots available.
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• Genre-specific classes around romance, mystery, and suspense are of interest this year. We would also like to add classes on other genres such as Young Adult, Middle Grade, Picture Book, and Nonfiction.

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Nice to be here! I came across this site completely by accident but I'm glad I did!
I'm in (what I hope to be) my final draft of my first novel. It's near-future sci fi at ~80k words. I'm in the process of going through beta reader feedback (22 betas, 9 responses) and hope to be done by the end of the month. Would love to join the crit group and I think I did (not sure - the page kept looping). Looking forward to meeting everyone!

I"m looking to publish a short story or two. Suggestions? Thank you

Hello! My name is Allie and I primarily write Fantasy and Science Fiction, and my current Work in Progress is a Young Adult (Epic) Fantasy. I'm hoping to find some critique partners and possibly beta readers both for this WIP and future projects. I am looking forward to making some great connections with fellow writers!

Hi, I'm a memoir writer with a book coming out on July 27, 2021 (Shooting Out the Lights). I'm still finishing up a memoir that will be out in the fall of 2022. I've been working on both books full time for twelve years, so it's been a long journey. Excited to be a part of Savvy Authors!