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

Join us this August 15th and 16th for an ECRW writers retreat! This two day event includes meals, views, wifi, community and private writing space, and all the tea and coffee you can drink. Location: Dumas Bay Centre (3200 SW Dash Point Rd • Federal Way, WA 98023)

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

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.

Emerald City Romance Writers is thrilled to announce bestselling author Alana Terry will be joining us on May 2nd from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm for our May Mastermind which is all about Amazon ads. There will be a lunch break from 12:00 to 1:00 pm.

Emerald City Romance Writers is thrilled to announce bestselling author Alana Terry will be joining us on May 2nd from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm for our May Mastermind which is all about Amazon ads. There will be a lunch break from 12:00 to 1:00 pm.

Coming to our April Member Meeting - Busting the Myth of Big D!ck Energy: Fantasies and Fallacies in Steamy Romantic Fiction with Christina Braver Romance is fantasy, escapism, and an HEA. In this workshop, we’ll discuss 10 popular sex myths and how to bust them.

Coming to our April Member Meeting - Busting the Myth of Big D!ck Energy: Fantasies and Fallacies in Steamy Romantic Fiction with Christina Braver Romance is fantasy, escapism, and an HEA. In this workshop, we’ll discuss 10 popular sex myths and how to bust them.

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 Rebecca Minelga - False Start Blurb: A sweet grumpy/sunshine romance where love is a four-legged word. buff.ly/pHwaifa

Coming to our April Member Meeting - Busting the Myth of Big D!ck Energy: Fantasies and Fallacies in Steamy Romantic Fiction with Christina Braver Romance is fantasy, escapism, and an HEA. In this workshop, we’ll discuss 10 popular sex myths and how to bust them.

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 from ECRW member Mini Briar - The Black Sands of Hades Blurb: Welcome to Hades Beach Resort. The night is alive with possibility, but beware the dawn… buff.ly/IEFODKf

Need an escape that gives you the giggles, helps you find a handsome orc, or ensures there will be dragons? Join us for Steamy in Seattle 2026 where guests Kimberly Lemming and Stephanie Burgis are in conversation about cozy monster romance! Costumes (and masks) encouraged!

Now available from ECRW member Olivia Tildon - Toll of the Crowned Flame Blurb: Toll of the Crowned Flame is about love that burns hotter than fear—and the price it demands. buff.ly/kMlsFPv

Now available from ECRW member Leslie J. Hall - Keep Out Blurb: Kaitlyn thought chasing graffiti taggers was the height of her code enforcement drama . . . until she nearly trips over a body at a construction site. buff.ly/jKDCjYQ

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 from ECRW member Amelia Stone - Love Potion 13 Tropes: Enemies to lovers · Body swap · Forced proximity. Perfect for readers who love: Freaky Friday, The Hating Game, meddling older neighbors, and banter that turns into chemistry. buff.ly/435tkrk

New from ECRW member Gabbi Grey - Love in Mission City: The Wedding Duet This book includes a novella and a short story: Too Much in Love to Care is a 10k short story Never Thought I’d Want You is a 15k word novella buff.ly/eRKbw1Q

Now available on audio - Finn's Find by Gabbi Grey 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

New from ECRW member Kari Harrison - Penny's Innocent Salvation Blurb: I’m nearly twice her age, alpha to the bone, and I am determined to keep her safe. Forced under the same roof for protection, tension sparks into white-hot attraction. buff.ly/npTgsaT

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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