I want a line edit for publication this summer. Anyone have an established business?

Only my first name shows up next to my pic. I've looked everywhere I can think of, but can't figure out how to get my last name to show up as well. Both names are in my information box. Any ideas? Thanks for any help!

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Hi all!! Can anyone recommend resources/workshops for writing a synopsis for a trilogy where the books are NOT stand alone? My trilogy is 90% complete at the moment.

Hi Everyone!

I'm a new author. I've got two crime fiction stories published and am working on my first novel. I'm excited to join and looking forward to all the resources offered here and hoping to contribute to the forums, too. I've just added a Premium Membership to my subscription. There are so many features offered.

Hello everyone! I'm Anna, I'm excited to get involved with all the resources offered here. Also, I am looking for a critique partner! If interested shoot me a message!

Hi all,

I just learned about SavvyAuthors from writer on another site, and I'm looking forward to being part of the community.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the last word of the first draft of my first novel -- working title, My Special Messenger.

It's the first fiction novel I've written and loved the process.:smile2: Now I'm into the revision, which isn't quite as much fun!

My previous writing experience includes being a journalist in South Africa, and publishing two books while living in Cambodia (The Sweet Tastes of Cambodia was a book about travel and traditional Cambodian desserts, The Definitive Guide to Living in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, is self-explanatory.)

Along the way I've self published two children's books and my husband, Skip, and I self-published a book about our experiences of disembarking from "traditional" life which included the experiences of others like us (Just Go! Leave the Treadmill for a World of Adventure).

Skip and I are nomads as we have no home, and have been house-sitting around the world since leaving Cambodia three years ago. So, while I have lots of time to write, I don't have anyone except Skip to talk with about writing. I'm hoping I can exchange advice, critiques and feedback with other members of Savvy Authors and look forward to the conversation.

We're on Facebook as The Meanderthals if anyone cares to join us.

I was advised to introduce myself to this community, so I'm following orders. I recently retired for the second time. maybe I'll get it right this time. Now there's no excuse of a paid gig getting in the way of my writing.

Hello, all,
I am interested in the NaNoWriMo Boot Camp, but I am not sure how to get involved, registered, or onto a team. Can I have a wonderful person to give me some more information?! Thanks,
Lexie Hancock

Hi Everyone! I just discovered Savvy Authors through a friend's recommendation and I'm very excited to see all of the great resources available here. I'm currently at work on my first novel and have recently begun to panic about what the heck to do next! I'm also very excited about the work and look forward to taking some classes and chatting with other authors that can help me find my way in this endeavor.

Hi! Just joined snd super excited!

How do the workshops run? Are they like a webinar?

Hello all,
I joined Savvyauthors this last week and am ready to dive into the plethora of knowledge! My name is Courtney and I write Adult Contemporary Fantasy novels. I look forward to meeting everyone and making great friends along the way to becoming a Savvy Author! Lol!

Hello! My name's Annicka, I'm an unpublished writer at the moment (but I'd like to change that.) New to the site and forums. Actually, my mom pointed me here lol. She IS a published author. Anyway, I've got a somewhat active Twitter (@AnnickaWrites) and I'll probably be poking around for querying advice soon.

My name is Paulette Noble and I don't (or haven't yet) use a pen name. You can find me on Amazon.com under my actual name. Really. I signed up last spring to take a class with Angela Knight (love her work) and became a premium member this summer for more classes.

I'm on the 5th part of a 5-part series that is called A Virtual Reality. I just finished the first draft and my primary reader/editor is having a pass at it right now. It's the longest work yet at just over 105K words. We're aiming for a December release. My and my husband's work (he's also a writer) are published through Kadythe Publishing.

Oh, you can also find me in the sprint room most evenings when I'm working on a draft.

I have a facebook page that I keep semi-updated and a twitter account that is neglected except at book release time.

If you want to exchange writing or publishing experiences, I'm all ears!

Polish, compete, and complete multiple first drafts.

It's been many years since I've been afforded the luxury of being able to sit and write til I'm tired of sitting. I'm taking advantage of it now.

Have one completed manuscript that is editing now. First three chapters and synopsis are being submitted in competition and have to be submitted by the 25th of this month. My crit partner is going over the chapters and today I'll write the synopsis.

Have a few more things to complete for that same competition with the August 25th deadline. After that, I have 2 or 3 manuscripts that need to be completed. Will save one for Nano.

I think that is enough to get me started. We won't bring up the elephant in the middle of the room. heh heh heh

When I first joined, I saw a list of tags that could be used but now I can't find them. I remember 3 or 4. Can someone direct me? They were on the right sidebar. Thanks!

I know there are a few who write or are interested in writing BDSM. I'm currently taking the BDSM class with Sascha, but I wanted to step outside that and get feed back and comments from others.

I spent all day yesterday, or the better part of it, editing the first three chapters of what I've always called erotica, but it's heavily BDSM. Last night and this morning, I read through the remaining 14 chapters and it's a pretty good story. I wrote it so many years ago in a chatroom on AOL, because I was the sunday morning storyteller, and it was a BDSM chatroom. But I don't think I ever went back re-read the whole thing until now. Every Sunday, the room got one chapter.

So what are your thoughts, what are you working on, and what is your take on writing outside the romance box?

Hi everyone! Not sure what familiar faces I'll come across but if you think you know me, or want to get to know me, contact me (however one does that). Looking forward to learning my way around the site and join some classes. Never too old to learn a thing or two right?

Patricia Rickrode
w/a Jansen Schmidt

So, I posted about me yesterday under someone else's thread and it was suggested I start my own with a lil about me.

In acuality, I've been writing since I was about 12 or 13, but created stories in my head a lot earlier. (NOT to be confused with my fantasies.) In my teens, my stories were a mix of third and first person, with POV all over the place. But they were all about me, my boyfriend, my best friend and her boyfriend. Hand written, page after page after page. I don't know if my Daddy got a hold of it and read it, or just knew what I was doing and told me to throw that crap away. Some of it went, but not all of it and I continued to write. I took a creative writing class in high school and my teacher told me my writing was trite and I'd never sell anything. If she is still alive, which I doubt, I hope she knows the market share romance holds today.

I've sold some poetry, won some small awards with poetry, placed as a semi finalist in RWA's Golden Heart, and won some small awards with short stories and first chapters. It's not the size of the award so much as it is the validation that someone thinks your work is that good. Though, I have to admit, the critique I had on my first completed manuscript sent to bed with a brandy bottle and tears. I put it away and haven't touched it since. And, now, it will all have to be retyped because it was put on a disk long enough ago that the newer computers can't read it. Perfect time to edit, right?

Writer's are a breed of their own. We write for many reasons, one of which to quiet the voices in our head, demanding their story be told first. I was seeing a psycologist when we live in Italy. The conversation went something like this, actually verbatim:

"Do you hear voices in your head?"
"Of course I do, I'm a writer!"
"I don't mean the make believe ones."
"Neither do I."

He never saw me again.I'm looking forward to being here and learning as much as I can. My genre's currently are historical romance, fantasy, horror/Sy-Fy and Poetry. I also have around 100 erotica short stories and two complete manuscripts. The count is one completed manuscript, three half done manuscripts and a couple of first chapters I'm really excited about. I participate in NANOWRMO (sp) and sometimes JANO.

I look forward to chatting with as many of you as I can.

My goal is to do another edit/revision of last year's NaNo novel in preparation to finish it during 2017 NaNoWriMo. Yup, that's right, I won last year with only about half the novel finished. And, I need to get back in the grove of the story and clean up some stuff in the first half so I'm ready to go in November.

I'm hoping you can all help keep me working on this goal.

I joined for the upcoming BDSM for Writers class. But am finding more here than I expected

While I belong to a local critique group, no one reads or writes erotica, so only my short stories are usually reviewed. Would love to find a beta, critique partner or a critique group!

I do have a published short story in an anthology and am preparing a submissions for two others. Have also begun blogging on my new author website.

I have created a goal of release dates for my Erotica and Futuristic Romance. I believe this site and classes will help me reach those goals.

I have just started writing again after many months. (Broke my ankle!) That said, I was sporadic at best, prior to that.

I am now working on a new book, and the plan is for it to be the first in a series. (I've never written a series before, so that could be interesting.)

My goal is 1,000 words per days. Most days I've written around 1,300 to 1,600 so pretty happy with that. I've only had one day where I've not reached my goal, and that was 737 words.

The aim is to write a novella of around 25,000 to 30,000 words every three months maximum.

Hello there! My name is Lexie Hancock, I am a university student from Ontario, and I am a newly published author. I write fiction, fantasy, and the like. I joined this page, because I am very familiar with NaNoWriMo and thought this site could present more of a challenge than the standard 50k words that I can easily surpass. Does anyone have any good pointers how to get started and involved?

By December 31, 2017 I will have:

1. submitted 2 manuscripts. Specifically, two category-length contemporary romances.
2. I will research agents and develop a list of at least three that I would consider submitting to.
3. Become active in my local RWA chapters by attending at least 1/2 of the meetings for both of the local chapters for the rest of the year. I may choose at that point to continue with both or pick one.

I will update this with progress by adding a comment at the beginning of every month.