Welcome To AuthorAdvance!

AuthorAdvance is a full-featured social network for writers, packed with tools to keep you organized and advice to keep you writing at your best. With AuthorAdvance, you can meet and network with other writers. Post blogs and articles. Create groups around your writing interests and participate in discussions on our forums.

AuthorAdvance also features thousands of comprehensive, wiki-style listings for agents, markets, publishers, contests, and more. Our submission tracking tools will help you keep your search for publication organized, whether you're shopping novels, short stories, poems or non-fiction. Best of all, it's FREE, so don't delay; sign up now!

Add a Listing and Win!

by AuthorAdvance

To celebrate the grand opening of AuthorAdvance, and to say thank you to everyone who has helped make our launch such a huge success, we're giving away a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate to one lucky user.

Filters Unleashed!

by AuthorAdvance

"It seemed like a good idea at the time." Sometimes, during the course of building a website, you look back a particular piece of functionality, and that's all you can say. Keeping the listing filters hidden in an expandable area was just such an idea. The plan was to keep them accessible, but out of the way, but after listening to a lot of user feedback, it became clear that all it did was make them difficult to find.

Love’em or Hate’em, Your Writing Can Benefit from a Critique Group

by mjnickum

Does criticism by other writers really help? The short answer is yes, it can. How can criticism by other writers, especially those that don’t write the same kind of articles I do, help me? Read on…

First of all, you won’t just be criticized; you’ll get some praise too. While feedback from other writers as focused as you can be frustrating and exhilarating, there’s a flip side. You will have to return the favor. How? Read on…

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