WPS 2026 Day 23: Rachel O’Rourke

  

Wonderland Pride Spotlight Day 23: Rachel O’Rourke

Welcome to day 23 of the 2026 Wonderland Pride Spotlight! This is my way to help champion LGBTQ+ books and authors this Pride month! Today I am interviewing Rachel O’Rourke. Be sure to check out my Instagram for even more excitement with this event!

Rachel O’Rourke's LGBTQ+ Releases

• Be My Saving Grace
• See You Again
• Little One
• Pretending in Paradise
• Until He Found Him

The Interview

1. Are you LGBTQ+? If so, how?

"Demisexual"

2. What rep do your books have?

"Be My Saving Grace: bipolar disorder, depression, self harm, and other various mental health disorders from side characters as the book takes place is a psychiatric Centre. MM relationship"

3. If you were to write in a different genre, what would it be?

"I already write in multiple subgenres within the MM romance genre, and it's one of the things I love having the freedom to do. I've crossed between contemporary to erotica, with an omegaverse soon to be released. Having range opens your readership and gives options that don't all feel like carbon copies of your own work and for a mood writer like myself, it means I always have ideas ready to write."

4. What is your biggest writing inspiration?

"The world is my inspiration. It could be a quote I hear in a movie, a sentence a friend said or a situation happening on the other side of the world that plants a seed in my head. Its roots grow and fester into this bigger plot with branches of sub plots that are tangled in vines and connected all the way back to that one thing at the root of it all."

5. Anything exciting for you on the horizon?

"Until He Found Him is the first book in an Omegaverse trilogy that is releasing on June 30th. It's my first time writing a trilogy, as I've always written standalones. I'm excited to stay in the world I've created for the next couple of years while simultaneously nervous to tackle the challenges that come with writing a trilogy."

6. Who is a queer figure you look up to?

"Colton Haynes. His book, Miss Memory Lane, speaks about the Hollywood culture of hiding your sexuality in order to obtain jobs and become famous. The internal suffering for anyone in the queer community who are forced to lie about who they are and who they love for the sake of their career is appalling and I admire that Colton spoke up about this and learnt to love himself more than the job."

Outro

I adore this excuse to conduct little author interviews! Happy Pride everyone! Stay tuned tomorrow for another amazing indie author and their LGBTQ+ releases!