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Erin
Rye
Writer
Creative brand writing across formats with strong voice and point-of-view.
press kits
Business blog posts
Interviews
company profiles
Social posts
Other Writing Projects
Full manuscripts Available on request
Distracted by Love
Contemporary Romance Novel, 88k words
Delightfully messy Mel finally gets the chance to work on the resort project of her dreams. The only problem is that she's collaborating with Rami Caldwell, the sexiest man in hotels, and she has to resist his charms if she wants to score the big promotion she craves. Throw in a jealous ex-boyfriend/boss (whoops!), a professional competition with her work wife, and a trip to Palm Springs that forces her and Rami together day and night and poor Mel is driven past her breaking point.
Witch Hunt
Single-cam comedy, half-hour, 33 pgs
When they accidentally kill the worst president ever, four millennial witches must learn to control their powers before all hell (literally) breaks loose. As edgy, boundary-pushing, and female-friendship-positive as Broad City,
but with more witches and lesbians.
*Second-round selection Austin Film Festival Writer's Conference*
Kiss the Brides
Rom-com, Short, 16 pgs
When Annie and Blair meet unexpectedly at a wedding, sparks fly. These opposites attract like magnets, but can they reconcile their different plans for the future?
*Second-round selection Austin Film Festival Writer's Conference*
*Quarter-finalist selection Hollyshorts*
Boiling Point
Drama, Short, 7 min.
When Violet comes home from a doctor's appointment with bad news about her pregnancy, she and her wife disagree about how to proceed.
dir. Colleen Labella
**SELECTED Culver City Film Festival**
Lady Parts
Comedy, Short, 10 min.
A not-yet-famous actor finally gets her big break only to realize the glass ceiling can also be a camera lens. She experiences a series of funny-because-they’re-true setbacks and putdowns as she barrels toward her breaking point and has to decide what's more important: her dignity or her career.
**WINNER Best Narrative Short Tallgrass Film Festival**
**WINNER Best Narrative Hollyshorts Film Festival**
in development
Untitled Donner Party
Historical Thriller, Feature Film
When a group of pioneers chooses a perilous uncharted shortcut to California, Tamsen Donner fights to keep her family alive against the forces of nature and the even more powerful forces of American greed.
Brief Synopsis: The shocking and infamous tale of the Donner Party has captivated the American imagination for generations, for who better personifies American ideals than the intrepid pioneer in search of a better life? When Tamsen Donner and her family set out for California in 1846, they leave behind a comfortable life and a prosperous future for the allure of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. But a deadly choice to take a shortcut set out for them by a bombastic charlatan exposes the depravity of American greed and an unending hunger for more. The party descends into darkness as they chart a dangerous course through a hostile landscape, are mired in sludge crossing the Great Salt Desert, and turn against each other as they weaken and starve. Tamsen soldiers on, helpless to change their course...until an early snowfall traps them in the mountains and Tamsen finds the inner strength to wage one last battle for survival.
#DOGMOM
Single-cam comedy, half-hour
When a broke millennial podcaster embarks on a journey toward parenthood, she battles relationship issues, crippling student loan debt, and infertility forcing her to decide whether to chase the grown-up life of her childhood dreams or be content with being the world’s best #dogmom.
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fun facts!
Erin is a paid speaker and a life and career coach for creatives who loves helping other folks find fullfillment and get their shit done!
Erin is obsessed with Eurovision and watches preliminary competitions on strange international apps that are rarely in English, despite the fact that she is monolingual!
An avid reader, Erin once read 100 books by women and people of color in
one year!
#decolonizeyourshelf
Erin once spent 6 weeks in an RV exploring the American West with only Shae the Dog to keep her company. Ask her about Utah's National Parks and Monuments!
Erin keeps up her classical music chops by singing with Vox Femina, a treble chorus with a mission to use music to promote social justice. Next summer they're singing in Estonia!
