AUGUST QUINN NEVER ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO BE LOUD.
Author. Founder. Chaos Coordinator.
Writing about grief, identity, survival, reinvention, and the beautifully messy parts of becoming yourself.
My Story
August Quinn writes the kinds of stories people are usually told to soften.
Stories about grief that doesn’t heal cleanly.
Queerness that refuses to apologize.
Families that fracture.
Reinvention at 40.
Masculinity, shame, addiction, survival, religion, sex, silence, and the strange beauty of rebuilding a life after it burns down.
What started as one book became AQ-Books — an independent publishing house built for stories that traditional publishing often asked to become smaller.
WHY
AQ-BOOKS EXISTS
AQ-Books was never supposed to become a publishing company.
It started because too many stories were considered:
too queer
too emotional
too niche
too angry
too honest
So instead of shrinking the stories, August Quinn built a home for them.
“I didn’t build AQ-Books to fit into publishing. I built it because some stories deserved to exist without asking permission first. - August Quinn
“The older I got, the less interested I became in making my stories easier for other people to digest.” - August Quinn
“Some people come out once. Some of us spend our whole lives doing it over and over again.” - August Quinn
WHAT AUGUST QUINN BELIEVES
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Queer stories deserve complexity.
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Grief is not linear.
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Humor and heartbreak can coexist.
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Midlife is not the end of becoming.
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Silence protects systems, not people.
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The best stories leave bruises.