E.C. Dane
Writes M/M shifter romance from somewhere in New England, where the winters are unreasonable and the fictional characters have stronger opinions than most elected officials. The books are what happens when a head full of opinionated shifters takes up residence and won't pay rent.
Where the habits came from
Before publishing, there were decades of writing in online fiction communities, back when that meant listservs and photocopied zines. None of it for money, all of it for love and comments. That apprenticeship left habits that carried over intact: content notes that mean something, heat levels stated plainly, and endings you can trust.
If you came up in those communities too, you already know the deal.
Read the tags. The tags are honest.
What's here
M/M wolf-shifter romantic suspense. Two ex-Delta operators, twenty years side by side, newly married, trying to be civilians. It isn't going well. Established couple, high heat, live ammunition.
Longer-form M/M omegaverse romance with more danger, bigger stakes, and plots that build across volumes. Fated mates who earn it the hard way. More teeth. Explicit, on the page, start to finish. Nothing fades out.
Runs alongside Common Ground: mpreg, warmth-forward, and labeled clearly on its own front door so nobody wanders in by accident.
A different world entirely. Cozy, funny, explicit omegaverse with fated mates, small-town meddling, and a guaranteed happy ending in every book. There are drafts through Book 20 in various states of "needs editing." They're coming. The town keeps growing.
Where to find E.C.
There is one social account: Bluesky, at @ec-dane.bsky.social, because it's the only one E.C. can stand to be on. Everything else stayed shut. The books are the conversation. The newsletter is the mailbox.
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Home is shared with five chaos foxes who run the household and allow a human to remain as a courtesy.
On fanworks
The author welcomes derivative and transformative works based on any of these worlds. If you're inspired to write, draw, or create, please do.
The author asks only that fanworks be posted to AO3 and locked to registered users, to keep content scrapers from reposting them to paid platforms without anyone's consent.
The author does not read fanworks for legal and creative reasons, but is genuinely glad they exist.