Eric Shaw Quinn

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Eric Shaw Quinn is a New York Times bestselling novelist, podcast host and producer. Together with author Christopher Rice, he is a partner in Dinner Partners, LLC, the production company that controls the literary estate of author Anne Rice. [1]

Between 1985 and 1986, Quinn worked as an advertising executive at the Columbia, South Carolina firm of Chernoff/Silver and as a theater critic on local television station WIS. His family had moved to the city when he was in sixth grade. After being transferred to his firm's Orlando office, he quit his job and moved to Los Angeles, after which he published his first novel, Say Uncle, about a gay man receiving custody of his sister's child after she dies in a car accident. [2]

In 2004, Quinn was hired to write several books with celebrity Pamela Anderson. After their first meeting, Anderson sent Quinn a pair of lucite platform high heels with a note that said "Eric, if you're going to help me tell my story, you're going to have to walk a mile in my shoes." The first book they wrote together, Star, was a New York Times bestseller. [3]

In 2013, Quinn launched a streaming Internet radio show with close friend author Christopher Rice called The Dinner Party Show. Using Tracey Ullman as their inspiration, they streamed their blend of sketch comedy and celebrity interviews through their website and as a podcast. [4] Their subsequent podcast, TDPS Presents Christopher & Eric focused more on true crime and was cited by law enforcement as being central to solving the thirty-year old cold case murder of gay adult video performer, William Arnold Newton. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Petski, Denise (March 10, 2025). "Anne Rice Estate & Dinner Partners Sign With InkWell Management & Literate".
  2. ↑ Day, Jeffrey (August 14, 1994). "Life Starts Over For New Author". The State. p. 55.
  3. ↑ Copeland, Brenda (March 24, 2023). "Editing Pamela Anderson". Publishers Weekly .
  4. ↑ Abadisis, Savas (February 21, 2013). "A Fairy Home Companion". The Advocate.
  5. ↑ Rector, Kevin (February 7, 2023). "Avenging Billy: How amateur sleuths took on a gay porn actor's haunting Hollywood murder". Los Angeles Times.
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