I spent much of the previous year completely recoding the Writer’s Database site from the ground up, to make it easier to provide new features. And I’ve had a host of new features in mind, to be deployed on that new platform.

As of now, enough of those new features are finished (and tested) to make it worthwhile to roll the new site out to the public. We are now at version 2.0! All user account data has been converted to the new site.

I’ve occasionally rolled out new features on the site before, often in response to user requests, such as the ability to record multiple rejections in one step. But this is a little bigger than that.

Many of the new features were requested by one or multitudes of current users. Others just struck me as good ideas at the time. Some of the highlights are:

  • Share your market listings (with or without your notes)
  • Browse and comment on market listings shared by other users
  • Submit multiple manuscripts (to the same market) in one step
  • Tag your markets with one or more keywords, allowing you to search & sort them by genre, prestige level, or any other criteria
  • Record submission deadlines and entry fees for anthologies & contests
  • Record whether a market accepts simultaneous, multiple, and/or electronic submissions. Search by any of these criteria.
  • Record a market’s maximum word limit; search by this criterion.
  • Record multiple e-mail addresses for a market (one for submissions, another for queries)

(* Fiction writers, I realize you don’t care about the “submit multiple manuscripts” feature, as most editors won’t allow it. But the poets are rejoicing, I assure you.)

Additional features are still on the way. I have more interesting ideas to implement, but I didn’t want to delay giving you these new capabilities any longer than necessary.

Don’t worry; the site is still free to use!

Want to let your friends know about this site?
Feel free to copy the badges from the site’s “About” page for use on your own blog or web site. After all, the more writers who use the site, the more valuable the sharing features will be.
Or, Digg this entry, if you’re aware of what that means!