Welcome to the imagination of Erin O’Quinn.
Using the pen name Erin O’Quinn, I have written more than 40 titles. I have published (or in some cases, re-pubbed) all of them on my own New Dawn Press; and all but aroumd ten of them are M/M novels/novellas. I have also designed the covers for all but the first two “Nevada Highlander” novels.
Here’s a handy guide to the gay titles:
I’ll start with a rough chronological order, from ancient to modern.
The historicals are in a series called The Iron Warrior:
WARRIOR, RIDE HARD: A man too hard to love, and the men who love him… A steel-gutted Roman ex-soldier, a beautiful young Norseman, and a Welsh pony trainer: Follow three men’s adventures across a decade in Old World Britannia and Ireland, in an age of riding bareback. The first of The Iron Warrior trilogy, set in the badass era of St. Patrick.
WARRIOR, STAND TALL: For two passionate warriors, where does lust end and love begin? The erotic adventures of two fifth-century warriors continues, with one hiding his shame and the other hiding his jealousies and superstitions. Which one will “stand tall” and face the truth? Gristle finds his old friends in Wales being threatened by invasion from ruthless Saxons; and more trouble waits on the sacred Hill of Tara that will strike again at the heart of Wynn. Into this web of lies, intrigue, and danger emerges Dub, a potent rival for the attentions of Gristle’s handsome lover.
WARRIOR, COME AGAIN: Each man must return—whether he wants to or not. Ireland and Britannia, 433 AD. Four warriors return to a place ten years burned into their past, along with a fifth wheel who seems to have no business at all running with the big dogs: Two secret lovers… A priest-in-training… The high king’s wise man… And a devious runaway who’s only following the tracks of a desirable man.
***All three novels are on my new Kindle Series Page, http://amzn.to/2n3sTgh
Into the Iron Warrior universe comes an all-new adventure whose main characters began in Warrior, Come Again.
🦌 STAG HEART
What happens when an innocent, natural soul is thrown together with a highly attractive but morally corrupt young man?
STAG HEART tells the intertwined story of three men.
~A scholar-warrior seeking inner peace in an often brutal world.
~The bad boy son of a king who needs to learn to become a man.
~An innocent, a wilding whose soul stirs in rhythm with raw nature.
These three are forced by circumstance to live and learn and finally survive together on Ireland’s sacred Hill of Tara, where mischief and mayhem lie hidden by ancient stones.
An M/M historical romance fantasy-adventure set in The Iron Warrior novel universe.
The following link to the novel gives buy links to various sites, reviews, excerpt, and more:
https://bit.ly/2HrD8HH
I have just published a historical romance titled UNKILTED (1770s Scotland) and am penning the sequel, UNBROKEN (the Colonies on the verge of their war with England). The image shows a possible pairing of the two novels, and the links are to the first one.
Kindle US https://amzn.to/2BVJ5rj
Kindle UK https://amzn.to/2R22EJ3
SeaToSky (epub or pdf) https://bit.ly/2R5wDzB
Smashwords (pdf) https://bit.ly/2StIFzn
QRI: all links, excerpts, reviews, more https://bit.ly/2VmGWhr
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Fast-forward about 200 years…to post-war 1923…and you’ll find my best-known and best-sellling series, The Gaslight Mytseries.
In a nutshell…
Would you enjoy a slow-developing romance topped with intrigue and humor, set in 1920s Ireland? If so, you’ll no find Michael and Simon edging their way into your libido. A balls-out Irishman with a secret, and a Cambridge-educated PI in total denial… Gay retro with a twist.
Michael McCree meets Simon Hart. Fisticuffs fly. And before Simon knows what’s happened, he’s gained a new flat-mate, a new business partner, and a wanna-be lover. It’s the “wanna-be” that drives every novel, from first to latest.
~Heart to Hart: A roustabout with a secret falls arse-over-bollocks for a surly, angry PI. Together, they solve a mystery but start their own, much deeper one.
~Sparring with Shadows: A man fights his inner demons while confronting his horny flat-mate, a determined swordsman, and a dangerous criminal.
~To the Bone: A pesky newcomer burrows like a tick between the two PIs even as they struggle to fight crime and to understand each other’s most secret desires.
~Thin as Smoke: Hollow-chested Dashiell Hammett stands between Michael and Simon like a blunt revolver, and his presence in a Mafia-hunt threatens to dead-end their edgy relationship.
~Masters of Cane: Even Simon is surprised at the true meaning of “cane masters” in this novel of sex, crime, punishment…and sexual payback.
#gay #erotic #romance #mystery #humor #retro
Heat level hot! 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
~The Gaslight Mysteries
New Kindle Series page!
Queer Romance Ink http://bit.ly/2mnG1hL (links, reviews, etc.)
Sea to Sky http://bit.ly/2lJ72bd (epub or pdf links, excerpts)
Smashwords http://bit.ly/1s3cf1q (epub)
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The three next novels are set in roughly 2009, when “Avatar” was just making its bones in the theater circuit. The place is far from a lush planet; it’s the rugged, no-frills environment of my home state (and my fictionalized home town)—the place ironically called Noble, Nevada.
The series is called Noble Dimensions, two novels and a novella that share the same universe. Threre’s some character overlap, mainly two very different fathers of two boys who just happen to fall in love.
Here’s a recent promo for the books:
Just stand-up guys in a no-frills setting… Men who are sexy without even trying… Come to Erin O’Quinn’s Nevada.
Noble, Nevada: One is awkward and naive with his first man. The other longs for simple, honest love. But their pasts return to shatter their dreams. If love hurts this bad, can it also heal?
The Chase: A shy rancher’s son and a glib gay who’s ducking his homophobe father…A crooked federal agent and a wild-ass chase…All come together mending fences, chasing dreams.
A Hard Place (novella): A game warden finds two poachers in the rugged Paiute Range. One is out to seduce him. The other is out to kill him. He’s between a hard place…and another hard place.
#mm #romance #action- #adventure, heat level high 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Series page:
~Noble Dimensions series http://amzn.to/2EqIsqs
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The next series starts in Nevada and (by the luck of the gods…long story) ends up in Scotland. The year is 2013-14, around the time that vibrant country’s Parliament had the good sense to legalize same-sex marriage.
The first novel is hands-down my best-known and most purchased. What is it about a Scot with serious swag and a smoke-eyed Nevada cop?
Have you started the NEVADA HIGHLANDER series? A bestseller trilogy of lust, love, and heart-rattling action…from Nevada to Scotland. Come for the erotica, stay for the love story.
NEVADA HIGHLANDER: A Scot and a cop. Who’s on whose tail? Two insatiable men set fire to the Nevada mountain wilderness.
THE KILT COMPLEX: High crimes and sexy misdemeanors. From blackmail to murder, Rory and Alex must confront their complex feelings for each other just to survive.
HUNTER’S POINT: A Scot and a cop … and a killer. Rory and Alex get tangled in the Scot’s past, the cop’s perilous job, and the snare of a killer.
SLEEPING WITH DANGER: Rory and Alex reach the peak…and the depths…when they follow the history of a former Falklands War soldier.
#gay #erotic #romance #action- #adventure
On O’Quinn’s new Kindle Series page: http://amzn.to/2kZE8VU
Queer Romance Ink http://bit.ly/2mnG1hL (links, reviews, etc.)
Sea to Sky http://bit.ly/2lJ72bd (epub or pdf links, excerpts)
Smashwords http://bit.ly/1s3cf1q (epub)
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In the second Nevada Highglander novel, a blue-eyed Irish cop working for Police Scotland shows up and… Wait. He becomes the focus of a whole new mystery series. I should not really say he’s *the* focus, except that through most of the series, the POV is mainly his. And for the man who pairs with Burns the mystery man, undercover cop Thomas truly does become the focus of his existence.
The series is the Burns! Mysteries: six novellas and a novel, with the first six divvied into two logical box sets.
Thomas Fitzgerald is a blond, blue-eyed undercover detective for Police Scotland. Running from a shadowed past in his native Ireland, he meets another man who is running. The man named Burns—dark and sensuous, and secretive to a fault—is doing his best to escape the law.
What happens when these two men come together? In the space of six novellas and one novel, Thomas and Burns experience lust and love, crime and punishment as they swivel from the edge of death to the verge of ecstasy. And back again.
BURNS TOO DEEP: An undercover cop encounters a very desirable man who’s running from the law. What could go wrong?
THE DUNDEE LAW: The men step far too close to a shallow grave, on an ancient burial mound in Dundee.
RED, RED ROSE: Under the roof in a gabled Victorian house in Edinburgh lie old crimes and new desires.
THE DEVIL IN FALKIRK: The men spiral apart, felled by the devil of distrust and misunderstanding.
THE UNICORN’S SECRET: The Hunt for the Unicorn brings someone even closer to the edge of another shallow grave.
THE BURNS ENIGMA: Searching for a man he thought forever lost, Thomas finds that a new lover is even better—and more imperiled— than he could ever imagine.
COME AGAIN, MY LOVE: An old wynd in modern Edinburgh leads to the 18th century, where the two men try to save a man from the gallows. Along the way, they have to confront their own buried secrets…
Okay, the links. The first six novellas have their own Kindle Series page, here:
http://amzn.to/2BRlmIn
*COME AGAIN, MY LOVE , a novel, has changed its cover, as you see here…
It’s all here, at QRI (links, excerpt, reviews, more) https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/come-again-my-love/
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Kindle US http://amzn.to/2iWI0Zt
Kindle UK http://amzn.to/2iyprtH
Sea to Sky (pdf or epub) http://www.seatoskybooks.com/erin-oquinn/9781370070053-a-rainbow-bridge/
Smashwords (epub) http://bit.ly/2hH3k4R
The two box sets are on my author pages.
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There are a few more, all on my author pages. I’ll be back to fill in the blanks!
I earned a BA (English) and MA (Comparative Literature) from the University of Southern California. My life has been a pastiche of fascinating vocations–newspaper marketing manager, university teacher, car salesperson, landscape gardener–until now, in relative retirement, I write as I look upon the drought-starved landscape of central Texas
You will find my M/Mysteries blog here: https://caitlinfire.wordpress.com
This one is…a spotlight on gay lit authors…and a lead-off article on the historical impact of jock straps…and some reviews of a few favorite books…and more:
https://gaylitauthors.wordpress.com
Date of last revision 7.7.19
Folks, you’re free to comment here and on the content page, as long as what you say is kept within the bounds of good taste. I know those words may bring a smile and some good descriptive writing. And that’s fine. This blog is very open. It welcomes erotica. It’s just not pornographic. My blog moderator will be waiting with open mind to edit any content that gets a little, um, out of hand. Let us live free and love free. Slán, Erin O’Quinn 🙂
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Erin, what a beautiful, informative blog. The images down the side are provocative, yet tasteful. 🙂 What wonderful book covers they would make, if only the censors would allow…
Now I know how you bring such color and depth to your books.
Jan x
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Jan, I appreciate you. I know you have the eye of an artist. It shows in all your books, it shows in the covers you’ve designed, and it shows in your promos and headers. So of course I’m blown away to read your praise. I’m also very glad you dropped by to see my blog. If you know of any m/m authors who might like to post some of their excerpts here, would you mention it to them? They need to email me or drop me a few words here. Keep up the fantastic work… Erin
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Erin, what a beautiful blog. I just love the pictures, so evocative and sexy. I have a new M/M book coming out in July and I’d love to be featured on your blog. Perhaps you can let me know what you need. My email address is susanmacnicol7(at)gmail(dot)com. I look forward to hearing from you. I’m also going to get one of your books to read. Love the look and sound of them.
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Yowza, Susan, I feel very complimented. You made my Monday morning!
I have not yet begun to feature other authors. I’ve been waiting until I can get a little better following, since this is a relatively new blog, so as not to make other authors suffer the embarrassment of few comments. But…when I do…I’d very much like to contact you. Hold on! I have a book I’m trying to format for pub, and one more to finish. I WILL contact you, promise. Good luck on your book. Be sure to visit and put your link on this site when you have it. Thanks again for the visit and the compliments! ~Erin
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Wondering if mobi or prc ebook files will be available at ARe site for Nevada Highlander books 2 & 3. Don’t like Amazon.
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To Steve: Both books ARE available on ARe/OmniLit, here: http://bit.ly/1tvfx7E
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Are you OK? Been trying to reach you since you got food poisoning, no response. Posted a review right away for Masters of Cane. Take care.
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