ECRW Newsletter submissions are now OPEN! 🎉 Have a new release, event, milestone, or exciting author news? Let us share it with the community! 📧 Submit here: buff.ly/kMCzyZk Let’s celebrate your wins and keep our members in the loop! #ECRW #AuthorNews #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #AmWriting

Please join us for our next workshop on March 7th It's a new year and that means a new tax season! Thomas Brown will discuss what authors need to do to keep accurate tax records for their writing business and answer your burning questions about everyone's favorite tax subject, deductions!

Now available from Rachel Kofman! "Finding The Curve of Love" Blurb: Ben is really good at math. Ryan isn't. In fact, Ryan's so bad, he needs a tutor. In fact, his tutor is Ben, the cute grad student he has to meet with weekly or else he fails his math class, or else Ben loses his funding.

Come see us @ ECCC! We will be in the Writer's Block space WB17 starting TODAY through Sunday. Hope to see you there!

Did you know ECRW has a monthly friendly critique group? Please join us every first Wednesday of the month at 7 pm Pacific (10 pm Eastern) for a no-homework, friendly, and kind group or workshop time! Located in the Video chat channel of the ECRW Discord.

Please join us for our next workshop on March 7th It's a new year and that means a new tax season! Thomas Brown will discuss what authors need to do to keep accurate tax records for their writing business and answer your burning questions about everyone's favorite tax subject, deductions!

ECRW Newsletter submissions are now OPEN! 🎉 Have a new release, event, milestone, or exciting author news? Let us share it with the community! 📧 Submit here: buff.ly/kMCzyZk Let’s celebrate your wins and keep our members in the loop! #ECRW #AuthorNews #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #AmWriting

New release from ECRW member Gabbi Grey - Finn's Find I'm not the kind of guy who lusts after strangers, but the man pulling up next to me is muscular and hot as hell. Sadly, when I wake up, I find myself alone. Do I have to chalk this up to a one-night stand, or might I him again? buff.ly/YqFhcEj

Please join us for our next workshop on March 7th It's a new year and that means a new tax season! Thomas Brown will discuss what authors need to do to keep accurate tax records for their writing business and answer your burning questions about everyone's favorite tax subject, deductions!

Now available from ECRW member Gabbi Grey - Hot Rucking Canadian Hot Rucking Canadian is a 26k novella about a rugby fullback who embraces life, a grumpy construction worker who always sees the worst in life, and the love story that spans across an ocean. buff.ly/z1FB8xU

Now available from ECRW member Gabbi Grey - Gideon's Gratitude Gideon’s Gratitude is a small-town, opposites attract, hurt-comfort gay romance about a former longshoreman who believes he’s broken and the lawyer who believes there’s life after divorce. buff.ly/X1VhDeF

Greetings! I'm Samara Black, and I'm the 2026 ECRW Social Media Manager - the face behind the posts, repost, and stories. When I'm not writing or hanging out on social media, I enjoy photography, annoying my teenaged children, and spoiling our pets - 3 rescue kitties and a rescue chinchilla

ECRW Newsletter submissions are now OPEN! 🎉 Have a new release, event, milestone, or exciting author news? Let us share it with the community! 📧 Submit here: buff.ly/kMCzyZk Let’s celebrate your wins and keep our members in the loop! #ECRW #AuthorNews #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #AmWriting

New from ECRW member Gabi Grey, a charity anthology for pancreatic research LOVE WINS: STORIES OF HEAT, HEART, AND HOPE, a limited-edition charity anthology, celebrates the power of love in all its forms. buff.ly/EQn5MUq

Join us in the heart of the Emerald City for the Emerald City Romance Reader Event, happening Saturday, June 13, 2026, at South Seattle College! Spend the day surrounded by fellow romance authors, passionate readers, and the electric energy of a community that lives for love stories.

Meet the 2026 ECRW Board! A PNW native and dyed-in-the-wool storyteller, Erin, our Treasurer is currently working on her first science fiction romance book under the pen name Lulu Starling. You can find her in the study rooms of the Bellevue Library, plotting the demise of several beloved characters

Meet the 2026 ECRW Board! Aila Ashe, our Secretary, writes funny historical and fantasy romances, with a new series set to be released next year. She loves stories with a genius, assassin, dragon, princess, thief, pirate, con artist, or Shakespearean actor, and can’t stop herself from putting them

Are you an aspiring, self-published, or traditionally published erotica/romance writer? We’ve got the perfect workshop for you! Ask questions and participate in writing exercises to help develop your skills and build the confidence to make your own saucy stories! buff.ly/8HOWGtT

Join some ECRW authors at this unforgettable Palentine's Day event! There will be some giveaways, a craft table, and a photobooth! Authors: Baley Noal, MT Zimny, Kimberly Wheelock, Lia Duchaine, Lindsey Sparks, Rayna Stiner, R.K. Devon, and Robin Jeffrey.

Meet the 2026 ECRW Board! Our VP of Communications, Karen Westing, is a lifelong lover of stories with sharp edges and satisfying endings. Karen writes historical romance with a mystery and suspense twist featuring smart heroines, secret motives and just enough danger to make the romance sweeter.

Meet the 2026 ECRW Board! Trish McCallan (she/her), our VP of Programs, was born in Eugene, Oregon, and grew up in Washington State, where she began crafting stories at an early age. An avid animal lover, she currently shares her home with four golden retrievers, a black lab mix and two cats.

Are you an aspiring, self-published, or traditionally published erotica/romance writer? We’ve got the perfect workshop for you! Ask questions and participate in writing exercises to help develop your skills and build the confidence to make your own saucy stories! buff.ly/8HOWGtT

Meet the 2026 ECRW Board! Our president, Danika Bloom, is a USA Today bestselling author of steamy contemporary romance who has independently published over a dozen books since 2020. She lives in Squamish, British Columbia.

ECRW Newsletter submissions are now OPEN! 🎉 Have a new release, event, milestone, or exciting author news? Let us share it with the community! 📧 Submit here: buff.ly/kMCzyZk Let’s celebrate your wins and keep our members in the loop! #ECRW #AuthorNews #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #AmWriting

Now available by ECRW member Alex Washoe - Airs Above the Ground (For The Love of the Game, Book 6) Two passionate women, one magnificent horse, and a world determined to tear them apart -- unless love can bring them home. buff.ly/f81SAer

Now available- Ladies' Own Bakery by Judith Lynne The four Misses Bickering remain too stubborn to marry except for love. They have just enough money to rent a bakery in Leicester Square, where bohemian earls rub elbows with ladies of the night, and all manner of people in between. buff.ly/mM76o9P

Come drink wine, eat chocolate, and hear romance readings from several ECRW member authors, among others! Happily Ever After will take place at BARN at 8890 Three Tree Ln NE, Bainbridge Island on Saturday, Feb. 7. at 6:30 pm. Tickets available here: buff.ly/F6FREYp

Please join us on February 7th when ECRW welcomes Misty Zaugg who will present on ways to use AI during the planning stage of your writing. Misty will not speak on using AI to actually write your books, but how to use it to facilitate the writing process—such as brainstorming, research, etc.

Did you know ECRW has a monthly friendly critique group? Please join us every first Wednesday of the month at 7 pm Pacific (10 pm Eastern) for a no-homework, friendly, and kind group or workshop time! Located in the Video chat channel of the ECRW Discord.

Please join us on February 7th when ECRW welcomes Misty Zaugg who will present on ways to use AI during the planning stage of your writing. Misty will not speak on using AI to actually write your books, but how to use it to facilitate the writing process—such as brainstorming, research, etc.

Now available from ECRW member Brianna Malotke! Madeline I fled my arranged marriage with nothing but a suitcase and a vow: no magic, no more bowing to the Parker legacy. In Wicked, I'll build a normal life. Or will my secrets destroy the first real thing I've ever had? buff.ly/F0GvdwU

Please join us on February 7th when ECRW welcomes Misty Zaugg who will present on ways to use AI during the planning stage of your writing. Misty will not speak on using AI to actually write your books, but how to use it to facilitate the writing process—such as brainstorming, research, etc.

ECRW Newsletter submissions are now OPEN! 🎉 Have a new release, event, milestone, or exciting author news? Let us share it with the community! 📧 Submit here: buff.ly/kMCzyZk Let’s celebrate your wins and keep our members in the loop! #ECRW #AuthorNews #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #AmWriting

ECRW Newsletter submissions are now OPEN! 🎉 Have a new release, event, milestone, or exciting author news? Let us share it with the community! 📧 Submit here: buff.ly/kMCzyZk Let’s celebrate your wins and keep our members in the loop! #ECRW #AuthorNews #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #AmWriting

Now available by ECRW member Gabby Grey! Lorcan is an age-gap, opposites-attract gay romance about what happens when a man who’s given up on life is presented with a chance to start over and the younger man prepared to share that journey with him. buff.ly/Ftb5JBx

ECRW is holding another Zoom Writers Retreat! Join us on January 17th, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm for writing sessions, as well as company and conversations with other writers. The event is free for members and nonmembers, but you must register. Because this is a Zoom event, you can join from anywhere.

Now available from ECRW member Gabbi Grey! Foster is an age-gap interracial gay romance about a lonely pup, a younger Daddy, and the best Christmas imaginable. buff.ly/qIyNA3m

Now available by ECRW member Gabbi Grey! What happens when your biggest crush turns up on your doorstep after twelve years? Marcus’s Cadence is a 7k second-chance gay romance instalove short story with a very happy ending and a malti-poo named Kiki. buff.ly/ULxmncg