Member Benefits

Community

Members have access to connect and meet with other Romance authors, share knowledge, make friendships and more! We are an inclusive community where your existence is never up for debate and we all believe that HEA's are for everyone. Our community is made up of romance writers from all over the globe and the thread that connects us is our love for the genre and respect for those in the profession by leading with empathy and fairness.

Mentorship Program

Members can apply to our annual IRP Mentorship Program which pairs romance writers with seasoned and knowledgable romance authors to help them achieve their writing and publishing goals over a (6) six month period. For more information on our mentorship program, please visit here. We're always looking for mentors!

Programs & Continuous Education

Members have access to webinars, workshops, recorded sessions, articles, and other resources created by industry experts to help them grow in their craft and career. Examples of our programs include: "Q&A with an Agent/Editor" Series, "Writing Inclusive Sex Scenes" workshop, and Harlequin@IRP Pitch event.

Beyond our virtual critique group meetings, we share information, connect and learn from each other in our online community. We have focused rooms based on the needs of our community so people can participate where they get the most value.

Perks of using Slack:

• Focused rooms to eliminate "noise"

• Can create threads within the focused rooms to stay on topic

• One-on-one messaging and video calling.

• All files uploaded are searchable as all conversations. No more digging through dates and files buried in posts like old-school forums and loops.

• Private rooms are available for safe spaces and invite only conversations.

We have a specific community agreement in here that all are required to abide by or they will be ejected from the community.

Our Current Focused Channels:

#town-square: Everybody's here! General announcements from founder, event posts, new member introductions and general member questions.

#mentalhealth: Space to talk openly and offer mental-health check-ins for members as we write. Daily insights provided in this channel on topics of perfectionism, self-awareness and challenging negative self-talk

#publishing-marketing: This channel covers topics of: agent experiences, editor experiences (good and not so much), trad pub wins, indie/self pub tips, pitches and queries for submission. Also to nurse our wounds of rejection and celebrate our wins.

#member-meetups: Channel where you automatically get introduced to other IRP member every two weeks so you can meet and grow your network. We currently use the Donut app to facilitate introductions.

#wip-critique: If you have a work in progress (WIP) and would like some feedback, join this room. This is also our official chat room for the virtual critique group.  To learn more, visit here.

#watercooler: Wanna share a recipe? Talk about the last show you binged? Random topics and questions are expected to be rattled out in here so the focused rooms don't get too noisy.

Community Resource Groups:

#rainbow-romance - Space for all authors, allies and enthusiasts of LGBTQ+ romance including author resources and events.

#black-writers-matter - Safe space for Black authors to heal during these times along with healthy conversation on the nuances of writing while Black, editor and author resources, including events.