Andrew Q. Gordon wrote his first story back when yellow legal pads, ball point pens were common and a Smith Corona correctable typewriter was considered high tech. Adapting to the times, he now writes with a shiny new MacBook that he sets on the same desk as his manual typewriter and vintage adding machine.
Long a fan of super heroes, wizards and sports, Andrew’s works include high fantasy, paranormal spirits, magic as well as contemporary fiction. He is still trying to find the perfect story that will include all his favorites under one cover.
He currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his husband, their young daughter and dog. In addition to dodging some very self-important D.C. ‘insiders’, Andrew uses his commute to catch up on his reading. When not working or writing, he enjoys soccer, high fantasy, baseball and occasionally sleeping.
Thanks for stopping by,
AQG
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Purpose
Forty years ago the Spirit of Vengeance—a Purpose—took William Morgan as its host, demanding he avenge the innocent by killing the guilty. Since then, Will has retreated behind Gar, a façade he uses to avoid dealing with what he’s become. Cold, impassive, and devoid of emotion, Gar goes about his life alone—until his tidy, orderly world is upended when he meets Ryan, a broken young man cast out by his family. Spurred to action for reasons he can’t understand, Gar saves Ryan from death and finds himself confronted by his humanity.
Spending time with Ryan helps Will claw out from under Gar’s shadow. He recognizes Ryan is the key to his reclaiming his humanity and facing his past. As Will struggles to control the Purpose, Ryan challenges him to rethink everything he knew about himself and the spirit that possesses him. In the process, he pushes Will to do something he hasn’t done in decades: care.
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The Last Grand Master
In a war that shook the earth, the Six gods of Nendor defeated their brother Neldin, god of evil. For the three thousand years since, Nendor and the Seven Kingdoms have known peace and prosperity.
But then a new wizard unleashes the power of Neldin. Meglar, wizard king of Zargon, uses dark magic to create an army of creatures to carry out his master’s will.
One by one, the sovereign realms fall. Soon the only wizard who can stop Meglar is Grand Master Farrell, the Prince of Haven, the hidden home of refugees. An untried wizard, Farrell carries a secret that could hold the key to defeating Meglar—or it could destroy the world.
While helping Nerti, queen of the unicorns, Farrell saves Miceral, an immortal muchari warrior the Six have chosen to be Farrell’s mate. But Farrell approaches love with caution, and before he can decide how to proceed, Meglar invades a neighboring kingdom. Farrell and Miceral find themselves in the middle of the battle. Farrell pushes himself to the limit as he and Miceral fight not only to stop Meglar but for their very survival.
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(Un)Masked
Jay Walker has two wishes: to perform the play of his dreams alongside his best friend at Wellington’s Tory Street Theatre, and to meet that special someone. Someone he’d go to the ends of the earth for. Someone who might only exist in fairy tales.
When Jay meets accordion busker Lethe Cross, it’s like living a dream come true. Lethe’s music captivates Jay, and he resolves to meet the man who plays so beautifully. But then he discovers Lethe’s life is more like a nightmare. The phrase “down on his luck” can’t begin to cover it. Determined to help, Jay does some snooping for answers—and winds up on the wrong end of a centuries-old curse. The good news is there’s a way to break it. The bad news is it might cost Jay his life.
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Ashes of Life
When Sergeant Thane asked his best friend and second in command, to go riding, he had no idea how much his life would change. Whisked away by his horse to a forest that shouldn’t exist, he hears a cry for help. Answering the plea, Thane releases a phoenix—Eraq—from his centuries long imprisonment.
Eraq’s first act of freedom is to claim Thane as his own. But the phoenix is more than he appears. A mage-shifter, Eraq sets his sights on the man who answered his call for help. Thane returns the interest despite learning that his act of liberation has set in motion events that will change the world. When he learns his relationship with Eraq places him at the center of events beyond his understanding, Thane refuses to abandon the man he’s come to love. Even as it hurtles him toward certain death.
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A Closed Door
Outted at thirteen, Orin Merritt left home after high school hoping to escape the hell his life had become. Ten years later when a tornado destroys his childhood home and kills his parents, Orin finds himself in an entirely new nightmare. One he can’t run away from.
Blaming himself for failing the two people who always loved and supported him, he returns home and confronts his past in the person of his one-time best friend, Thomas Kennett. Thomas not only rejected him when Orin came out, he led the group that tormented Orin into leaving.
As he struggles to deal with his grief, Orin also labors to fulfill the pledge he made to his parents before their death. In the process, Orin learns that sometimes when you go away to find yourself, you leave the answers you’re looking for behind.
Best wishes on your new books. I know they will be great! Really enjoyed (Un)masked.
Hi there… Just wanted to let you know that I loved “The Last Grand Master”. I very much enjoyed your style of writing, and how you depicted all of your characters and the intricate battle scenes and magical aspects of the story. I’ve read a lot of Gay themed books (love, love them), so I’m pretty used to the detailed intimate scenes usually found within a story. I thought it very refreshing how you hinted at the MC’s intimate moments, giving us a clear picture of what was happening/about to happen and the love and passion involved without turning the scene into an erotic or porno-like moment. Since the main antagonist in the story has yet to be defeated, I’m hoping more stories in this fascinating tale will come about, and soon. I’ll definitely be looking forward to whatever your wonderful mind comes up with. Thank you for sharing your wonderful imagination/writing with us readers. I’m truly delighted to add you to my fav list of writers. (I’m off now to read “(Un)Masked”, and will be in wait of “Purpose”!) ~RMG
Wow- thanks for this. Was really nice to read this morning. I am working on book 2 so hopefully soon, but in the meantime ill be getting Purpose ready for its June release.
Thanks again for writing me. I really appreciated it.
Andy
I just finished reading Grand Master and had to find your site to see if there was a sequel in the works. I’m very happy there is one coming and look forward to it.
This was an awesome book and one of the more original /engaging m/m stories I’ve read in awhile.
I grew very attached to Farrell and Miceral and may even read the book again shortly because I enjoyed their story so much :).
Thanks again for the great read – I’ll probably be waiting impatiently for your next book now.
Thanks for reading and taking the time to hunt down the site to leave a comment. Every time I get a post like this from a reader, it helps motivate me to work a bit harder and write a bit faster. It made my night. Thanks so much. – AQG
Andy,
It was nice meeting you and your beautiful daughter today. I will definitely check out your books soon. – Lynn
Thanks Lynn. We had a great time. She was all smiles on the way home, THEN she went to sleep – thanks heaven for small naps. 😛 So glad we could make it today, it was a nice end to the weekend for us both. – Andy
Hi Andy,
I’m thinking I’m going to read your book ‘The grandmaster’. Very curious about it. Just a question I’m missing your, truly beautiful and thè best I’ve ever read(!), story ‘Second Shot’ in your summary of books/writings. I’m starting to read it again so to catch up before starting reading your ‘wednesday briefs’. Looking very forward to that.
Martin
Martin,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Very much appreciated. The reason my free stories aren’t on the home page is two fold – 1) they are not edited so they are a bad example of my what to expect in the published books and 2) they lack cover art that would make folks take a look at them.
The decision to use the Wednesday Briefs to continue the Second Shot story was based on several things, a) a desire to work with these characters again, b) I wanted to do something for free to give new people a chance to see what I do and c) to give back to the folks who’ve supported me. Sec Shot is the ‘thing’ most people ask about so I figured it was right to say thanks buy getting back to this AND to do it for free. This seems a great vehicle of that.
Hope you enjoy it going forward.
AQG
I’m enjoying Bettor to Lose right now…..Lynn
Thanks Lynn. I haven’t written anything like that in a while so hopefully a new one like it one day soon. 🙂
I finished it — I really liked it. How’s that gorgeous daughter of yours? Hope to see all three of you at our next lunch thingy. Lynn
I’d like to add my praise for “The Last Grand Master” to all the others. Like MG Rein I also read a lot of gay themed books….gay romance, gay fantasy, gay science fiction, gay historical romance..you name it. And I strongly agree with everything he/she said. It was refreshing that the sex was simply alluded to. Many of the books I’ve read, the story or plot seems to be written around the graphic sex scenes. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy that type of sex scene at times, but your style made a very pleasant change.
Believe it or not, the length of your novel was one of the reasons I bought it. I’ve never been a fan of short stories or novelettes. It takes time to tell a story and it takes time to flesh out the characters, in my opinion. And, I want to spend time enjoying both. And your book allowed me to do so. Give me a trilogy (or more…I LOVE the one K. M. Frontain is writing!), something to allow me to really let me sink my literary teeth into! So like many other readers, I’m looking forward to a possible sequel or two or three!
I have purchased “(Un)Masked,” and am very much looking forward to reading it. In fact, it’s my next read, and I already know it’ll be an enjyable one.
I hope the time comes when you CAN devote more of your time to writing many, many more books!
KLH
Kent,
Thanks for the post, I appreciate the thought you put into it. I’ll probably miss a few things, but feel free to ask for more. I’m not a huge fan of the sex in books stuff – like I enjoy it, but I always ask, what if my daughter found it – so I try to keep it some what clean. I wrote a story that I posted for free that was close to 300K words. I had three very small sex scenes and each had a purpose in moving the plot along – i.e. in one it showed how much the MC had changed by how he suddenly didn’t care for his partner’s needs. So I’m really good at alluding to things 😛
I do tend toward the longer books and if I had the time – more on that in an instant – I have several other series I’d like to write. But it does take a certain type of story to be a series. It can’t be a strict romance. WIth Romance, the chase so to speak is the story. Get passed that and you lose the interest, so you move on to new characters. Something like this requires a series and is less romance focused. They each are good and I’ll write some of each over the course of my career.
Last writing full time – most every author I know wants to write full time and so few do. If lightning doesn’t strike and your books don’t blow the sales chart away, you’ve got to write a lot – personally, I’m not good a ‘churning’ out stuff. They each take time, so that limits my production. But we’ll see. With my third book coming out, I’m building my library so maybe one day soon. Know that it is my goal and i like to chase things that are achievable. 🙂
Thanks again for writing, was a nice end to a really LONG day. 🙂
-AQG
new to me author…these look really good!
Thanks – hope you find something you like. 🙂
I love anything with a curse…it just feels so…bad! I loved the blurb for unmasked. I always say that a blurb can make or break a purchase. Makes it for me! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and commenting – I suck at blurb writing, but I know – as you remind me – how really important a skill it is. Sigh, something else to work on. 😉
Thanks again.
Sound like very interesting reads, like something I haven’t read before. Thanks so much for the giveaway too
Hi there! I was just curious if this is a new copy of The Last Grand Master that’s publishing this month, or if it’s just re-releasing again? I enjoyed it the first time round, and would love to read it again if it’s been updated!
This is the same book with just a few edits. The publisher moved it to their new non-romance imprint so they re-released it in advance of book 2. Nothing new in this so wait until April for book 2. And thanks for the note. I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂