Website Updates

Though we lost the ability to have user profiles linked to Member Books, we have re-enabled user profiles. The Member Directory can be found under the MEMBERSHIP menu.

You can set your user profile to private or public! This setting can be found under MY ACCOUNT.

We've also added some automation forms to make things easier for the volunteers managing the website and shout outs.

We've simplified adding a Member Book, you can now simply cut & paste the URL to where your book can be purchased and we can crawl the site and extract the title, blurb, publication date and cover. How easy is that? If you have some older books you would like added to the site, you can add them also. Recently published books and those available for pre-order will automatically be included in the monthly Shout Out!

Speaking of Shout Outs, we've also added a form for submitting your Shout Out.

Menu items with *'s on them.

You may have noticed there's several menu items that now have *'s on them. This is because you MUST be logged in to access those pages, if you're not logged in, you'll be redirected to the login page. There are a few reasons behind this.

First, many people seemed to forget they had an account already on the site and then went and created yet another account for this years renewal. This makes things messy and a bit difficult to manage, especially now that we've turned User Profiles back on.

Second, by having menu items it reminds people of things they may not always remember.

Third, by requiring log in for certain pages, like forms, some of your information will be automatically pre-filled in for you.

Resources

Most of us belong to multiple writing groups, but we still love this one the most. So we're trying to mimic some of the better ones by providing resources to help writers of all levels. There's not much in there right now, but if there is a resource you find helpful, tell us about it and we'll look into it. It could be a software program, website service, or anything that might be of value to the community.

Our resources section will be comprised of suggestions from fellow members.