E Rose Lynn Writes

Heatless is out now

[eroselynn]

Do you like women?

Do you like men?

Have you ever read the omegaverse and thought, "I wish this had more women?"

Do you enjoy reading books with disabled and chronically ill characters?

Do you want to read about a weirdly localized Northern Virginia experience where at least one person you know calls where you live the National Capital Region?

Do you like reverse harem novels?

I have the book for you!

Heatless - E. Rose Lynn

<p><em>Kara’s not an Omega that Alphas want—so can she trust it when four rich, smart, gorgeous Alphas say they do?</em>&l

Kara’s not an Omega that Alphas want—so can she trust it when four rich, smart, gorgeous Alphas say they do?

Kara is smart, beautiful—and very aware of the fact that no Alpha will want her, because she’s a one-in-a-million Omega who can’t get pregnant or bond. But that’s what billionaire Alpha Damon Silva tells her his set of four Alphas wants when he offers to court her.

The idea of four gorgeous billionaires wanting her seems too good to be true, and she can’t forget the one massive catch—without a bond, they’ll always be able to drop her from their lives and move on, leaving her known as the Omega who got left behind.

But this might be her only chance for the life she’s always wanted to live, if she can get past the fear of it all going wrong—or right. What’s an Omega to do, when faced with the opportunity of a lifetime?

(Amazon)

(B&N)

[shy--ent]

No such thing? If someone wanna see something in their omegaverse, then they wanna see it. There's no should about it. Sexuality doesn't matter. We want things in fiction that we don't want to see irl😐 it's not like we enjoy this "irl omegaverse."

[sammysixtyseven]

hey buddy i see you reblogged my tags

and yeah people can go whatever they want with fiction and shouldn’t be harassed because of it yada yada but like. im allowed to give critisms or just state my opinion in a way that isnt like DIE DIE DIE!!! all i said that straight (cishet) omegaverse is funny bc its basically just like real life lol. there’s no spice to it. wheres the mpreg? the women with cocks? men with slick all up in they crack??

a lot of key components in omegaverse (a genre made by queer people/people who enjoy queer media are erased when you just…make it straight lol. again, nothing wrong with that but it’s really a shame, y’know?

(and also sexuality DOES matter in omegaverse hello it’s like THE gay genre. wasn’t it like, invented by japanese mangakas who liked bl?)

[sammysixtyseven]

oh fuck ALSO to mention that , get this, the main female is an omega and the main males are the alphas. wow. thats that’s great. that’s like totally ignoring all the worldbuilding of omegaverse that was made to disturb gender expectations and create a space where girl ≠ small petite and man ≠ big brawny

could’ve at least made her a beta idk LMAO

[eroselynn]

If you're looking for a queer omegaverse written by a queer person, I can promise that you'll find that here.

Heatless started as an examination of disability and biological essentialism in the omegaverse--it was about looking at the question "what does it mean to be an omega if you can't do the one thing that is supposed to be inherent to an omega (go into heat)?"

Book two (in progress) is my homage to the fanfiction origins of the omegaverse--not just a male omega with male alphas but also the family dynamics of the omegaverse that you see in fandoms like Batman.

Book three (to come) will be my sapphic ode to the omegaverse, centering women in a genre that has, since its Supernatural RPF origins, understandably centered men.

If you're looking for a queer, trans-positive omegaverse, I hope you'll give it a try (though I won't be offended if you wait until book two)!

[eroselynn]

I think my favorite thing about writing book 2 is the amount of worldbuilding I get to do. Heatless is pretty small, all things considered, and book 2 is as well from a purely "where it takes place" standpoint, but there's much more of an opportunity to build out some of the social and political implications of things.

Making the OMC work with how I've written it has really taken some finagling (and a lot of time reading about the military) and I'm sure some people with more knowledge of the military will tell me what what I've written is totally impossible or at least impractical, but I've gotten the chance to do some really interesting what-ifs.

[eroselynn]

Do you like women?

Do you like men?

Have you ever read the omegaverse and thought, "I wish this had more women?"

Do you enjoy reading books with disabled and chronically ill characters?

Do you want to read about a weirdly localized Northern Virginia experience where at least one person you know calls where you live the National Capital Region?

Do you like reverse harem novels?

I have the book for you!

Heatless - E. Rose Lynn

<p><em>Kara’s not an Omega that Alphas want—so can she trust it when four rich, smart, gorgeous Alphas say they do?</em>&l

Kara’s not an Omega that Alphas want—so can she trust it when four rich, smart, gorgeous Alphas say they do?

Kara is smart, beautiful—and very aware of the fact that no Alpha will want her, because she’s a one-in-a-million Omega who can’t get pregnant or bond. But that’s what billionaire Alpha Damon Silva tells her his set of four Alphas wants when he offers to court her.

The idea of four gorgeous billionaires wanting her seems too good to be true, and she can’t forget the one massive catch—without a bond, they’ll always be able to drop her from their lives and move on, leaving her known as the Omega who got left behind.

But this might be her only chance for the life she’s always wanted to live, if she can get past the fear of it all going wrong—or right. What’s an Omega to do, when faced with the opportunity of a lifetime?

(Amazon)

(B&N)

[eroselynn]

Who's Queer in the Omegaverse?

As I've been working on the sequel to Heatless, one of the things I've been thinking about is how both books have one or two core questions inherent in them.

For Heatless, it's "is an Omega still an Omega if they don't go into heat?" The answer, of course, is yes, but it gives a way to look at ideas like biological essentialism (bad) and more broadly this idea of, what does it mean for a fundamental part of who you are to be in direct conflict with what your body is or can do. It's in some ways a queer metaphor, but also a disability and chronic illness one. Am I still me if my body has betrayed me?

For the sequel, one of the questions is "who is queer in the omegaverse?"

It started, in some ways, from my effort to figure out how to make a trans-friendly omegaverse, for which my friends (sorry!) received many a middle-of-the-night message along the lines of "how can a cis female Alpha get someone pregnant without giving her a penis?"

But it quickly became clear to me that it's a much more complicated question than that, in all the ways that queerness is a complicated question in real life, as well as some fun new ones. For anyone who reads the omegaverse with any regularity, you've seen that straight Beta/Beta relationships are generally not written as queer--but that Alpha/Alpha and Omega/Omega relationships are, regardless of gender. And, at the same time, as we go back to the fanfiction origins of the omegaverse, male/male relationships are generally written as the norm, at least in Alpha/Omega pairings. In many omegaverse stories, it's more "queer" to be a female Alpha with a male Alpha than a male Alpha with a male Omega.

My story is one where many Alphas and Omegas (and some Betas) are in polyamorous groupings--generally 2-5 Alphas for one Omega. In a world like this, is it queer for Alphas within that pairing to have sex? Is it queer for them to fall in love? Is an Alpha man with an Omega man still queer, in this world?

[eroselynn]

Less than a week until the release of Heatless, which is about a lot of things but is a lot about what it means to live with a disability that makes you feel like you don't get a say in your own identity.

It's also about society, money, and being loved by four hot guys.

Heatless - E. Rose Lynn

<p><em>Kara’s not an Omega that Alphas want—so can she trust it when four rich, smart, gorgeous Alphas say they do?</em>&l

You can also find Heatless at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

[eroselynn]

Heatless is available now!

[eroselynn]

Less than a week until the release of Heatless, which is about a lot of things but is a lot about what it means to live with a disability that makes you feel like you don't get a say in your own identity.

It's also about society, money, and being loved by four hot guys.

Heatless - E. Rose Lynn

<p><em>Kara’s not an Omega that Alphas want—so can she trust it when four rich, smart, gorgeous Alphas say they do?</em>&l

You can also find Heatless at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

[eroselynn]

My final edits are in!

[eroselynn]

One of the most interesting things, to me, about writing Heatless, was writing a (mostly) straight story when coming from a queer place.

There are a million ways to tell a love story, but a lot of straight love stories look the same way: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl break up, boy and girl get together again. Somewhere along the way, their lives become intertwined in a way that pulling them apart would hurt--would damage them, inextricably.

One of my main goals when writing Heatless was to tell a story that wasn't about people intertwining themselves so deeply that they could never be pulled apart, that you couldn't tell where one person ended and the next began. My goal was to tell a story about love being a choice--it being a decision that we make, day after day, with all that comes with that.

Heatless is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Pride Publishing, and First For Romance.

[eroselynn]

I just have to show off how pretty my cover is!

[eroselynn]

Me, starting an author blog: I definitely know how to run a professional author blog

Me, trying to run an author blog: maybe what people really want is a treatise on how to conceptualize queerness in the omegaverse

[eroselynn]

It's been so long since I've meaningfully started a new Tumblr that I've forgotten what I'm supposed to say, so...

This is the official author blog for E. Rose Lynn. I write queer and polyamorous romance (though I never seem to be able to escape writing chronically ill/disabled romance too, lol).

I'm so excited for my first book, Heatless, to come out on April 23, 2024. It's available for pre-order right now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, First For Romance, and Pride Publishing.