ERIC SHAW QUINN wrote what would become his debut novel during his spare time while working as an advertising director and theatre critic. But Say Uncle, a comic and celebratory tale of an eccentric gay man who receives custody of his infant nephew after his sister is killed in a tragic accident, took ten years to find a publisher. The idea of a gay man raising a child was deemed so controversial at the time that one editor went to far as to reject the manuscript with the words, “You and I just march to a different drummer, Mr. Quinn.” Upon its publication, the film rights were snatched up almost immediately, where after some of Hollywood’s brightest stars spent another few years agonizing over whether or not American moviegoers were ready for such a groundbreaking look at love and family. A studio merger prevented the film from getting made. So Eric decided it was time for a pen name. As “Quinn Brockton” he wrote two original novels (Never Tear Us Apart and Always Have, Always Will) based on characters from Showtime’s hit series Queer as Folk. Soon after he was chosen to write two novels based on the wild life of mega-celebrity, Pamela Anderson. He was hired to just be the “ghost writer” but then Ms. Anderson outed him to the world during an interview with Jay Leno, and the resulting media blitz took Eric around the world, landed him a spread in the National Enquirer and earned him the title of Amazon’s #1 Chick-Lit Author of 2004. Eric's recently published his first murder mystery, Write Murder, the first in a series inspired by his sojourn in the celebrity spotlight. When he’s not busy writing novels, he writes, produces and hosts for his You Tube channel, The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice & Eric Shaw Quinn. (www.thedinnerpartyshow.com) You can visit his blog at www.ericshawquinn.com
