What's better than one amazing story in a book? SEVENTEEN amazing stories in one book! That's right – in June you will get to experience 17 unique, entirely QUEER stories by some of your favorite authors! Without further ado, the June theme is…

THE FUTURE IS QUEER

🌈 Our June BOTM is Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder! Out There is a new queer sci-fi anthology featuring 17 amazing short stories of all sorts! From hardcore interplanetary tech to fantastic superheroes to soft and sweet romances that feel entirely contemporary, everyone is going to find something for them in here! We’re including a large custom bookplate digitally signed by all of the authors and the editor, as well as a letter from Saundra Mitchell, the wonderful editor that pulled this all together!

🌈FEATURING:

Ugochi M. Agoawike
K. Ancrum
Kalynn Bayron
Z Brewer
Mason Deaver
Alechia Dow
Z.R. Ellor
Leah Johnson
Naomi Kanakia
Claire Kann
Alex London

Jim McCarthy

Abdi Nazemian

Emma K. Ohland

Adam Sass

Mato J. Steger

Nita Tyndall

Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars, an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels, two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station, people are forced to travel to the past or the future to escape the dying planet, only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future, everyone in the world vanishes except for two teen girls who are in love.

This essential and beautifully written collection immerses and surprises with each turn of the page.

QUEER REP: achillean, sapphic, trans m&f, asexual, aromantic, nonbinary, outside the gender binary, transcending gender

OTHER REP: Native American mcs, Black mcs, Indian mcs, Iranian mcs, Colombian mcs, BIPOC mcs

🌈 The e-book for June is Gateway by Juliette Dunn!

Featured fandoms:

- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (wlw, lesbian) (magnet)

- The Disasters by M.K. England (Bi m, achillean, trans f, mlm)

- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell (bi m, gay, mlm)

- Starship Teapot by Si Clarke (ace, agender)

- A multi-fandom item featuring many of your favs!

🌈 An item from each fandom will be included in your boxes! We’re excited to announce we will be featuring art by Tiff!

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Sometimes you want to be the world’s first OUT GAY Country music star! It’s nice to have a dream, and we are throwing our weight behind that with our May box with the theme: FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!

🌈 Our May BOTM is A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy! While this book looks great from the get-go, there is a lot more to this book than you know yet! We loved the secret reveal near the end! What a whirlwind! We think you’re going to love love LOVE this book! You’ll receive an exclusive signed bookplate, print, and author letter alongside your brand new copy!

🌈SUMMARY:

Emmett wants to be country music’s biggest gay superstar. But for now, he’s happy to do the next best thing: Stay with his aunt in TN for the summer and perform at the amusement park owned by his idol, country legend Wanda Jean Stubbs.

Luke hates country music. As the grandson of Verna Rose, the disgraced singer who had a famous falling out with Wanda Jean, Luke knows how much pain country music has brought his family. But when his mom’s medical bills start piling up, he takes a job at the last place he wants: a restaurant in Wanda World.

Neither boy is looking for romance, but sparks fly when they meet, and soon a long-lost secret comes to light, threatening to unravel everything.

Will Emmett and Luke be able get past the truths they discover… or will their relationship go down in history as just another Sad Country Love Song?

QUEER REP: gay mcs, sapphic scs
OTHER REP: vegetarian sc, Black sc, Chinese-American sc, Brazilian bc, Scandinavian bc, bc w/ multiple sclerosis

CW: racism, homophobia, sexism

🌈 The e-book for May is More by Abra Pressler! More info coming mid-April on our social media!

Featured fandoms:

- Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert (mlm, gay) (magnet)

- Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (bi f, lesbian, wlw)

- Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski (ace f, bi f, wlw)

- Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar (trans m)

🌈 An item from each fandom and our BOTM will be included in your boxes this month! We’re excited to announce we will be featuring art by @mavilezart as well!

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🌈 Our April BOTM is Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk! This book is intense. We mean INTENSE! We reread it multiple times, and COULD NOT GET ENOUGH! It is a beautiful, impassioned story of falling in love with your best friend. Written in verse, it tells about queer love and the complexity of female friendship that will keep your heart racing, and breaking, until the very last page.

🌈ABOUT THE BOOK:

Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends, until they became more. Their affections grew until the blurry lines became dangerous.

Over the course of a single day, these two best friends learn that hearts, like flames, aren’t so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end?

Queer rep: bisexual f, sapphic f (wlw)

Other rep: Black mcs

CW: underage drinking, underage drugs, pyromania, toxic relationships, racism, arson, homophobia, fatphobia

🌈 The e-book for April is Dad Jokes and Pine Cones by CJ Banks!

Featured fandoms:

- Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (bi wlw) (monthly magnet)

- Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green (bi m, gay, mlm)

- The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (gay, demi bi m, lesbian, ace, mlm)

- The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (trans m, gay, bi m, enby, mlm)

🌈 An item from each of these fandoms and our BOTM will be included in your boxes this month! We’re excited to announce we will be featuring art by wickedliltongue as well!