RIRW exists to promote excellence in women’s and popular fiction, to help writers become published and build careers in their writing field, and to provide continuing support for writers within the women’s and popular fiction publishing industry. Formed in 1983 as a Romance Writers of America chapter, we disaffiliated in 1988. We are an independent, nonprofit organization in Rhode Island.
If you are serious about writing popular fiction, we invite you to join us! Click here to see membership benefits.
We welcome everyone, without regard to race, color, national origin, disability, religion, cultural identity, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical appearance, or any other identity distinction. Furthermore, we recognize that because racism, homophobia, and other forms of bias are systemic in our national culture, people from marginalized communities continue to be denied advancement in our industry. RIRW strives to address this by raising awareness within our membership and increasing our efforts to attract members from a variety of backgrounds to enrich our community of writers.
We meet from September to June on the first Saturday of the month (except for February, when we hold our annual retreat). Because of holidays and/or other conflicts, the date or venue may change (scroll down to see list of dates). We will announce changes here on our home page. We do meetings via ZOOM.
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March 1, 2025 — HOLLY DARLING on Email Marketing
How To Use Email Marketing To Sell More Books: Learn how to write emails that get opened and clicked and in turn build your brand loyalty and revenue. We’ll cover topics such as: subject lines, deliverability, structure and automations. Holly will teach you how to choose subject lines that get emails opened, why your emails may head to spam and how to build a simple welcome sequence. There will be plenty of time to take notes and ask questions and you’ll leave with a solid plan for your email marketing strategy.
Holly Darling is the owner of Holly Darling HQ, a business that helps authors create and implement their email marketing strategies to sell more books and build their brand loyalty. She has worked with creative business owners for the past 13 years, helping them grow a business that is data-driven and automated, allowing them to spend more time on writing their books.
She has appeared on multiple author-focused podcasts, delivered multiple workshops on email marketing and automation at over fifty conferences and appeared on Canadian news channels as a creative entrepreneurship expert. She is also a self-published contemporary romance author under the pen name Holly Mortimer. Learn more at https://www.hollydarlinghq.com/
Note: For regular meetings, we welcome Visitors for up to two regular meetings before you need to join. If you want to check us out, please send us a message by NOON on Friday (day before meeting) and we’ll send you a ZOOM link. Come join your fellow writers for a free-ranging discussion!
For regular meetings, we gather to chat at noon; Meeting starts at 12:30, with workshops starting about 1:30
Fall Schedule, 2024:
September 7 Susan Kaye Quinn
October 5 – Renita McKinney on Trends and Tropes
November 2 – Brenda Chin on Layering
December 14 (ARIA Expo is Dec 7) – Jeanette Smith on Self-editing
2025:
January 4 Roundtable
Jan. 31 – 1 February 1 (Retreat, with Deb Dixon and Jo Ann Ferguson)
March 1 – Holly Darling, Email marketing
April 5 – Fight scenes
May 3
June 7 – Roundtable