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Call for proposals for our Eighth Annual SavvvyWriterCon Online Conference

In the spirit of SavvyAuthors’ motto, Writers Helping Writers, once a year, we open the site to everyone and encourage our presenters to give back to the writing community through their knowledge and expertise as we use our market reach to help you sell books and strengthen your brand. This year SavvyWriterCon will be from …

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Networking for the terminally shy (or it’s time for RWA) by Leslie Dow

There are only 11 more days until July 18 and I am already having mini panic attacks. July 18, the first day of the RWA Conference. I don’t know about you but I suck at networking. I hate it. Seriously. The thought of walking into a room with people I do not know and do …

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To Do a Conference or Not Do a Conference — Is That The Question? by Beth Daniels, aka Beth Henderson, J.B. Dane, Nied Darnell

There is a point in every writer’s life, I’m sure, when they wonder whether they should attend a writer’s conference. Many published writers never do and some published writers show up at more than one conference every year. In part, that’s for promotion purposes, which include being part of a panel or giving a quick …

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Writing Retreats by Sherri Shackelford

So you want to throw a retreat! Many authors belong to one or more writing group(s), and there’s nothing more team building than a retreat. These conferences come in all shapes and sizes. RWA and ACFW each throw an annual conference with numbers in the thousands. There are also many, many regional conferences of varying …