Did you know that this is Rainbow Crate’s FIFTIETH box? We’ve grown a lot over the years, and we’re marking this milestone with two FABULOUS books that are very different, but take place in the same arena, which is…

🎬 HOLLYWOOD! 🎬

🎬 Our Trad book this month is Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, a twisted, modern-day hollywood horror starring a jaded scriptwriter who is asked to do the unthinkable, and the B-movie monsters from his past that will make sure he does exactly what they want…

BYG-AT-A-GLANCE: 

GENRE: Horror

REP: gay, ace, bi lesbian

LENGTH: 304 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

- New fully-redesigned dust jacket!

- Author letter!

- Signed bookplates!

SUMMARY: From Chuck Tingle comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale―"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple.

As he is haunted by his past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.

🎬 Our Indie spotlight is something very different, Stars Collide by Rachel Lacey! In hardcover for the first time, this critically-acclaimed 2023 favorite is the love story of a jaded pop star whose career is beginning to wane after 20 years, and the young, rising vocalist that brings the light back into her life!

SC AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: contemporary romance

REP: lesbian, pansexual, trans, sapphic, Black, Filipino-American, and Mexican-American scs

LENGTH: 327 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

- New fully-redesigned dust jacket

- Foiled hard case

- Art endpapers

- Printed Edges

- Author letter

- Signed bookplates

- Deleted scenes

- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY: Eden Sands has been a star for twenty years, but it’s lonely at the top. Her mediocre marriage just ended, and her inner circle is smaller than ever. The stage is the only place she’s ever felt like she truly belonged, and yet, her last album flopped, and her upcoming tour hasn’t sold out. Eden’s desperate for her star to shine bright again, but when her team suggests a collaboration with an up-and-coming young star to give her a boost, she balks.

Anna Moss is pop music’s rising star. She’s idolized Eden Sands for most of her life—so it’s a dream come true when she’s invited to perform with her at the Grammys. Anna’s tired of being defined by her bubbly persona. She wants to be taken seriously as an artist, and a duet with Eden could be just what she needs.

As Anna and Eden rehearse, they soon realize they have more in common than their musical talents. Now they just have to decide if what is between them is a one-hit wonder or the making of a romance worthy of one of the greatest love songs of all time.

🎬 Limited subs beginning with the June box are open now through the link below!

🏴‍☠️ Our Trad book for Pride month (and our four-year anniversary) is The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron, a swashbuckling tale based loosely on a true story of a fish out of water shipwright who finds her true home on the high seas as the first female pirate captain!

BALLAD AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult high seas adventure
REP: Black bisexual mc, Peruvian sapphic love interest, gay scs
LENGTH: 368 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New fully-redesigned dust jacket
- Author letter
- Signed bookplates
- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY: In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. When her way of life and the delicate balance of power in the town are threatened, she is forced to flee her home along with a motley crew of refugees, including a mysterious young woman named Teresa. Jacquotte and her band become indentured servants to the infamous Blackhand, a ruthless pirate captain who rules his ship with an iron fist.

🛸 Our Indie spotlight is Trailer Park Prince by Andre L Bradley, an out of this world tale of aliens forced to live amongst humans, and what integration into human society means to them, particularly the twin princes set to be their peoples' future leaders.

TPP AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: YA modern day sci-fi
REP: Two mixed-ray gay male MCs, two gay male MCs, gay scs, bisexual scs.
LENGTH: 300 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New fully-redesigned dust jacket
- Art + foiled hard case
- art endpapers
- Author letter
- Signed bookplates
- Deleted chapter
- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY: A decade ago, a rift tore open the Kaydan sky, pulling twin princes, Noan and Jormon, plus thousands of their people, from their home world and dumping them in the American South. In the years since, they've grown used to the drones policing their every move and to hiding the magic-like abilities that set them apart. But they'll never get used to the crosses burning outside their trailer-an occasional reminder that Kaydans don't belong.

🛸 Limited subscription spaces are open now!

💋 Our Trad book is Flawless Girls by beloved author Anna-Marie McLemore, a story of a left-behind sister desperate searching for answers in a boarding school that is definitely what it seems.

FG AT-A-GLANCE: 

GENRE: YA dark academia urban fantasy fever dream (skews older)

REP: sapphic intersex Latina mc, sapphic gender-nonconforming li, various white sapphic scs

LENGTH: 304 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

- New fully-redesigned dust jacket

- Author letter

- Signed bookplates

- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY:  The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn’t care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school that turns out first ladies, princesses, and socialites.

Younger sister Isla is back home within a day. She refuses to become one of the eerily sweet Alarie girls in their prim white dresses. Older sister Renata stays. When she returns months later, she’s unfailingly pleasant, unnervingly polite, and, Isla discovers, possibly murderous. And the same night she returns home, she vanishes.

As their grandmother uses every connection she has to find Renata, Isla re-enrolls, intent on finding out what happened to her sister. But the Alarie House is as exacting as it is opulent. It won’t give up its secrets easily, and neither will a mysterious, conniving girl who’s either controlling the house, or carrying out its deadly orders.

💋 Our Indie spotlight is Earthflown by Frances Wren,  a twisting, magical thriller that sets up US (the 99%) against THEM (the rich).

EF AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Adult futuristic whirlwind with a side of drama

REP: (from the author) “We'd like the emphasis to be that both Litarnes and I are queer creators of colour, and many aspects of the rep is lived experience.”

Gay male mc w/depression and lower melanin, Ace-spectrum male mc w/lower melanin, Maori male mc w/high melanin, South-east Asian male sc w/moderate melanin, Bisexual & sapphic, scs (including South-east Asian) w/moderate + lower melanin

LENGTH: 467 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

- New fully-redesigned dust jacket

- Art + foiled hard case

- art endpapers

- Author letter

- Signed bookplates

- Extra content

- Full-color art gallery in back

- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY: When Ethan saves the life of a firestarter, it's nothing unusual. He's the only healer on call at the hospital – and that gunshot wound isn't going to regenerate itself. But his patient turns out to be Corinna Arden, heiress to a pharmaceutical empire controlling Britain's water supply. Her twin, Javier, is a man who (a) starts sending Ethan flowers at work, (b) seems terrified of a secret, and (c) has the cheekbones and earnestness to make up for both.

Ethan indulges in (what he thinks will be) a brief, harmless romance – but is swept up in a deadly collusion over Project Earthflown: the largest reconstruction tender since London clawed its way out of the rising sea.

Determined to follow the money, Ollie is a journalist who finds a corpse at the end of a too-convenient tip. The fate of water – and who profits – might depend on the perennial question: has Ethan lost his mind, or is he just an idiot?

💋 Limited subs beginning with the April box are open now!

💀 I WANT ZOMBODY TO LOVE 💀

April’s two books are proof that love doesn’t have to end with death. 

💀 Our Trad book is Hearts Still Beating by debut author Brooke Archer, a gripping, romantic love story set in a zombie-filled post-apocalyptic landscape.

HSB AT-A-GLANCE: 
GENRE: YA post-apocalyptic romance (skews older)

REP: white CIS sapphic main characters, one with a fantasy chronic illness, wlw

LENGTH: 336 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

- New fully-redesigned dust jacket

- Author letter

- Signed bookplates

- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY: Mara is dead—mostly. Infected with a virus that brought the dead back to life, she wakes up in a facility to learn that a treatment for her ‘condition’ has been found. No longer a danger, Mara is placed in an experimental resettlement program. But her recovery is complicated as she’s sent to live with the best friend she hasn’t seen since the world ended — and since their first and only kiss.

💀 Our Indie spotlight book is Monsters within Men by T.J. Rose, a delicious slow-burn adult love story set in post-pocalyptic London.

MWM AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Adult post-apocalyptic romance

REP: Brazilian/Dutch cis male mc, white cis male bi/questioning mc, Black, Asian, & Middle-Eastern scs, achillean and sapphic scs

LENGTH: 471 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

- New fully-redesigned dust jacket

- Art + foiled hard case

- Original cover endpapers

- Author letter

- Signed bookplates

- Exclusive extended epilogue

- Collectible bookmark

SUMMARY: A decade on from the first wave of zombies that wiped out most of society, Noah finds himself stepping up to lead Squad E, part of London’s East Regiment. Between battling monsters, struggling with grief, and his rivalry with another lieutenant, Noah is sinking fast. The last thing he needs is a young, weak conscript with an attitude problem to add to his issues. Especially when he can’t seem to get this new guy out of his head.

💀 Limited subs beginning with the March box are open now!

😈 BE GAY, DO CRIME 😈

Rules? Who follows those? Certainly not us…

We’re super excited to bring to you our exclusive March books:

😈 Our New Release book is the wonderfully lyrical Icarus by the author of one of our favorite books, The Wicker King, K. Ancrum! It comes with signed bookplates, new dust jacket, an art bookmark and an author letter!

ICARUS AT-A-GLANCE: achillean cis male mc with eds, white intersex male li

GENRE: YA greek myth retellings (skews older)

REP: achillean cis male mc with eds (+neurodivergent-coded), white intersex male li, mlm, closer-than-friends but not lovers mlmlw

LENGTH: 400 pgs

SUMMARY: Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don’t let anyone close. Don’t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don’t get caught. Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black, but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous—a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus’s rules.

😈 Our backlist spotlight is the romantic, perfectly-timed sci-fi epic, Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley! This fully custom special edition comes with a redesigned dust jacket, end pages, foiled hard case, stenciled edges, and signed art bookplates!

J7 AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Adult Romantic Sci-FI

REP: wlnb, Autistic physically-disabled transmasc non-binary lesbian mc, femme transfem lesbian li, bisexual transfem sc, Deaf gay trans male sc, lesbian scs

LENGTH: 313 pgs

SUMMARY: Castor Quasar is a junker— a bounty hunter making a living off of collecting and selling valuable scrap. They live a quiet life, bouncing from job to job and not worrying about the brewing galactic rebellion. But when they get a job offer for an irresistible amount of money, they find themself smuggling (charming and beautiful) transgender activist Juno Marcus across the galaxy under the watchful eye of the Intergalactic Police Force and a propaganda-informed galaxy.

🗡️ Limited subs beginning with the February box are open now!