ECWC 2024

In these workshops: Emerald City Writers Conference is designed for writers at every stage of their journey. Whether plotting your first novel or fine-tuning your next bestseller, you'll find valuable insights, practical advice, and a supportive community of fellow writers. Engage in expert-led workshops, participate in panel discussions, and network with industry professionals who can help you bring your stories to life.

Learn more about the craft and business of romance writing and pitch to editors and agents at this year's ECWC!

Workshops will be available for replay for 30 days after the recording links are shared.

About the speakers:

Skye Warren: Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance with over 2 million books sold. Her author business started as a five-figure struggle with long hours and a constant fear she wouldn’t make enough to pay the mortgage. Investing in marketing and advertising transformed her business into a seven figure business working four hours per day. It's her goal to empower romance authors to sell more of the books they work so hard to write. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.

Russell Nohelty: Russell Nohelty (www.russellnohelty.com) is a USA Today bestselling fantasy author who has written dozens of novels and graphic novels including The Godsverse Chronicles, The Obsidian Spindle Saga, and Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter. He is the publisher of Wannabe Press,co-host of the Kickstart Your Book Sales podcast, cofounder of the Writer MBA training academy,and cofounder ofTheFuture of Publishing Mastermind. He also co-created the Author Ecosystem archetype system to help authors thrive. You can take the quiz to find your perfect ecosystem at www.authorecosystem.com or find most of his writing on his Substack at theauthorstack.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and dogs.

Lee Savino: Lee Savino is a seven-figure romance author with multiple USA Today and Top 100 Amazon bestsellers who also has coached multiple authors.

She has extensive expertise in selling direct, going wide, rapid releasing, and branding, as well as less commonly explored (but extremely lucrative) areas such as translations.

She runs the Millionaire Author Mastermind Facebook group, and co-teaches the Money Magic Membership with Renee Rose, hosts the Six Figure Author Experiment with Russell Nohelty,

the Six Figure Strategy Course with Nick Eriks, and the Seven Figure Author course with herself.

Sign up to Lee’s Author advice mailing list  here.

Robyn Roste: Robyn's mission is to help maxed-out writers set up smart marketing systems that give them back time, resources and much-needed brain space so they can live the life they started their business for.

With more than a decade of experience in marketing, communications, and strategic planning (in both corporate and freelance settings), she values authenticity, problem solving, and building scalable systems!

Robyn is a marketing strategist, copywriter, and Certified Funnel Pro with a passion for helping creatives leverage their talents in more impactful ways, get paid their worth, and step with confidence into their space as thought leaders.

J.S. Arquin: J.S. Arquin is a classically trained actor who has lived and performed around the world in a professional career spanning decades. His studied technique with characters and facility with accents have served him well as a full-time narrator. He has breathed life into over 200 audiobooks and been a finalist for several industry awards, while working with some of the top selling authors and publishers in the world. He is a listener favorite in the exciting realms of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and LitRPG, and also has a healthy romance presence under the pseudonym Jay Alder. You can find out more at: arquinaudiobooks.com.

Bekah Brinkmeier: Bekah Brinkmeier is a USA Today bestselling author, prolific ghostwriter, collector of pen names, and freelancer extraordinaire. She mostly uses her MBA to project manage her life, as much as her neurodivergent brain will allow, but would much rather be lost in a fictional world somewhere. A genre-hopper at heart, she'll write (and read) many different things but her heart is forever in romance. When she's not writing for herself or her clients, she can be found wrangling her kids, browsing rescue groups for her future Corgi, sharing ADHD memes in every single group chat, planning beach adventures, and avoiding her laundry. Between her pen names and ghostwriting, she has written over 80 novels for both traditional and self publication. As a cheerful extrovert, she loves to talk and has spoken at various conferences over the years on the topics of creativity & neurodivergence, networking strategies for people who don't like to people, project management for non-project people, and managing your ADHD and your author business.

www.bekahwrites.com 

Rebecca Thorne: Rebecca Thorne is a USA Today, Indie, and Sunday Times Bestselling author, specializing in fantasy and sci-fi with romantic elements.

She is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, hails from sunny Arizona, and uses her ADHD as a superpower to write multiple books a year. When she’s not writing (or avoiding writing), Rebecca can be found traveling the country as a flight attendant, hiking with her dogs and lovely fiancée, or basking in the sun like a lizard.

Rebecca Slitt: Rebecca Slitt is an editor and publisher of digital interactive novels for the romance label Heart's Choice and its parent company Choice of Games. She has edited over 30 interactive novels, including Nebula finalists The Luminous Underground, The Martian Job, and The Road to Canterbury. As an author, she has written the YA Psy High series for Choice of Games, and has contributed to several roleplaying games, including Timewatch, Noirlandia, and Geist. With her PhD in medieval history, she can find you the best takeout in twelfth-century London and make sure that your dragon combat follows the rules of chivalry.

Ammon K. Lyle: Ammon K. Lyle is a producer, screenwriter, and entertainment mogul with expertise in music, television, and film. A graduate of Howard University with a degree in Business Administration, concentrating in Finance, he was the inaugural recipient of Usher Raymond’s scholarship in partnership with the United Negro College Fund.

Currently, as the Head of Scripted Originals at Crazy Maple Studios, he launched a writer’s initiative and acquired over 50 feature films. Previously, as a manager at Prime Video, he helped partners launch streaming channels, consulted on marketing strategies, and analyzed content performance, including launching the France Channel in the U.S. and the Fuse+ streaming channel.

He began his career at The Walt Disney Company, managing celebrity deals and distributing over $100 million in royalties. He was later promoted to Manager of Content and Deal Strategy for Disney+ and Linear Networks, where he worked on eight-figure deals for shows like Shark Tank and Futurama. At Amazon, he managed content acquisition and development for Audible, negotiating deals and securing content from top agencies and talent. Passionate about giving back, he serves on the boards of Usher’s New Look, UNCF’s Young Black Professional Society, and The Gathering Spot in Los Angeles.

Tera Cuskaden: Tera Cuskaden is a RITA award-winning editor who began her career in publishing in 2004 as a reviewer and proofreader. She has worked with numerous New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and is notable for editing the first-ever digital-only title to hit the New York Times bestseller list. Tera spent nine years at Samhain Publishing as Senior Editor and Art Department Coordinator before transitioning to Entangled Publishing, where she served as Editorial Director. Currently, she is the Managing Editor at Crazy Maple Studio for KISS, where she continues to collaborate with bestselling authors and craft addictive stories for voracious readers. Tera holds a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies from Indiana University.

Donna Jennings, Ph.D: Donna Jennings, Ph.D., aka Dr. J., arrived at her writing career after being a sex educator, therapist, and finally a college professor of human sexuality. Using her vast knowledge and experience of sexuality and the mind, she continues her educational efforts to integrate positive sexuality into the human experience through fiction writing. She is the editor for Rosy, a sexual wellness platform for women, and an award-winning author of The Fiction Writer’s Sexuality Guide-Sex: It’s More Than a Scene. After authoring many erotic short stories, she debuted her first romance novel, Shadows & Silhouettes: Cards of Passion, in August 2024.

Dar Albert: Dar has been dabbling in the creative arts since the age of 14 when she sold her first painting. She has dedicated her life to her passion for design, color theory, art history and the challenging and ever changing world of typography. Her book covers have won national and international awards, and have helped to catapult many titles to Amazon top ten lists, USA Today best seller lists and many, many more!

Jessie Cunniffe: Jessie Cunniffe is a professional blurb writer and book blurb coach from Sydney, Australia. A passionate advocate of the indie author community, Jessie has dedicated herself to taking the pain out of blurb-writing with her custom blurb services and two signature courses: Book Blurb Magic and The Spicy Blurb Playbook. When she’s not writing or dreaming up the next BBM product, Jessie can be found journaling, exploring new ocean pools, and playing her guitar. She has been a contributor to the arts pages of one of Australia’s most highly respected newspapers for the past decade. On the occasion that Jessie manages to snatch some reading time, she’s probably buried in P. G. Wodehouse or Agatha Christie.