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  1. Leslie

    Will Instructors Be Paid

    Yes, I am confused as well. I have submitted the refunds just like always and Paypal has been randomly cancelling them. I have to check each day and refund again. This is just as fun as it sounds. Paypal is not telling me what is going on. I cannot tell you since I have no idea. Please give...
  2. Leslie

    Will Instructors Be Paid

    Hi all All the refunds have now been processed. Both Paypal and stripe say that they will take 5-10 days. If you have not received a refund by October 1 (just to give them a bit more time) please post here and I will see what I can find out. Thanks
  3. Leslie

    Will Instructors Be Paid

    Yes, I am slowly getting those refunded. It's a pretty manual process and time consuming. I expect they will all be done in a few weeks.
  4. Leslie

    Will Instructors Be Paid

    Hi all. I have completed the payments for all instructors and will start on the refunds this weekend. Apologies for the delay. It's not simple to figure out the refunds, but you will be refunded. Thanks! Leslie
  5. Leslie

    Stop the presses! There might be a buyer for Savvy!!!

    Hi Deb, All members are subscribed to this forum but sadly a lot of them have marked our emails as spam so would not get this.
  6. Leslie

    Stop the presses! There might be a buyer for Savvy!!!

    Hi All! Well I have been contacted by someone who is interested in taking over SavvyAuthors! Watch this space for more information! Also please post here if you would like to see us continue and your ideas for a NEW SavvyAuthors!!! :) Leslie
  7. Leslie

    And we have a winner! West Mesa Highway by suzylangevinwrites

    Congratulations :party: to all the participants in our Hot Summer's Flash Contest and Special Congrats to @suzylangevinwrites for her story: West Mesa Highway! Flash is a great way to hone your writing skills and have fun! Sign up for our next Flash Contest: Write your Fantasy Flash Contest...
  8. Leslie

    A seemingly legit phishing attempt (heads up everyone!)

    HAHAHAHA.... That bounced..
  9. Leslie

    A seemingly legit phishing attempt (heads up everyone!)

    Hi all, so today I got what was initially a pretty scary email from what purported to be a legit organization...Read on.. for today's Foil the Hacker Extravaganza! Scary, right? So I did a quick search and yep this is a legit if sort of smarmy legal firm in the UK that goes after license...
  10. Leslie

    Fortnight Flash Fiction Winner West Mesa Highway

    This is good! So sad and full of regret. Loved that part below. I do like how she clearly sees her bad choices and regrets them even while she expects Mitch to be there. For me, parts of the middle could be tighter, but it's a good story. Nicely done.
  11. Leslie

    June Amazon FIRST READS

    Congratulations! I was not aware that this program exists! Thanks and hope the book does well!
  12. Leslie

    Novel POV?

    Wow. I'm not sure I would call it dated (not that my opinion matters) but a lot of the younger writing out there particularly that in the new romantasy genre is first person. @RJ Garside What are you hearing on the pub pro? Do you PP colleagues think that third is dated? I write sexy romance in...
  13. Leslie

    Generative AI and copyrights

    Good Morning and happy Memorial Day to all of us in the U. S.! We have some on-demand classes but at Savvy we do ours slightly differently. We offer occasional updates with recent material. This is what I just posted today in The Writer's Guide to AI class. I thought others might be interested...
  14. Leslie

    Querying is a struggle for reasons I didn't expect.

    Excellent advice!
  15. Leslie

    Querying is a struggle for reasons I didn't expect.

    Maybe depressing, but for me, it helped me shape a pub strategy. So, based on this, the platform is the most important thing. You can either plan on getting a contract and use the pub company platform, or go the self-pub route and build your own. It's also clear that you are more likely to get...
  16. Leslie

    And the winner is...The Game by Coreymp

    :party: Congratulations :party:go out to @coreymp for her winning flash fiction: The Game! Definitely read this tension-packed story! Thanks to all the participants! If you are interested in participating in our next contest, registration is now open! HOT SUMMER Fortnight Flash Fiction June 10...
  17. Leslie

    Querying is a struggle for reasons I didn't expect.

    We're hearing that a lot now. We've had some of our larger pubs drop out of Pitchfest because they are not open to querying at the moment. There was a great blog article about this...let me see if I can find it...ah, here it is. It's about what was disclosed about book sales and promo in the...
  18. Leslie

    Anthropic's Claude 3 and CIA

    Leslie does a review of the Anthropic generative AI, Claude 3. She also walks through some of the reasons why you might want to trust Anthropic with your data. Please let me know if there are other AI tools that you would like me to dig into! I am always looking for new services to review.
  19. Leslie

    And the winner is... R. A. Gatescf1 for The Book Dragon

    Congratulations to @R. A. Gatescf1 for her very cute story, The Book Dragon! Great story! Our next Flash Fiction contest starts on April 29th: Special MYSTERY Flash contest! April 29 - May 12 Join us for more Flash Fiction stories that are fun and help you improve your writing craft!
  20. Leslie

    Pitch Results SavvyAuthors Spring Pitchfest 2024: Agent Requests & Editor Requests

    Yes, we updated this original post to add her requests.