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❄️ WINTER WONDERLAND ❄️

❄️ Our Dec trad is something a little bit different — get excited for A Queer & Cozy Winter by… Rainbow Crate! That's right, this original anthology will never be published anywhere else! We’ve been working on this book for the better part of a year and had such a hard time keeping this secret!

❄️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

- A gorgeous dust jacket with blue, red, and silver foiling

- Illustrated hard case with gold foil

- Gorgeous custom art endpapers

- Printed edges

- 11 never-before-released original short stories!

❄️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE: 

GENRE: A little of everything!

REP: A huge variety of queer rep! Each story has individual rep and CWs listed at the start of the tale

AUTHORS:

❄️Ben Alderson & Laura R. Samotin
❄️Claudie Arseneault
❄️Anna Burke
❄️Kellen Graves
❄️Ian Haramaki
❄️Noah Hawthorne
❄️Natalia Hernandez
❄️Naseem Jamnia
❄️Tamara Jerée
❄️SD Simper
❄️Rosie Talbot

LENGTH: 349 pgs

❄️ SUMMARY: Every author was hand-selected by the Rainbow Crate team from a smattering of beloved authors from our past boxes and every story is a uniquely queer tale about winter, featuring writers from a diverse array of backgrounds. We can’t wait to share these with everyone! The stories in this anthology span the gamut!

⛄️ Our indie book for December is the wonderfully sweet Snow Boys by Simon Doyle! If you liked Heartstopper, this book may turn out to be your new favorite!

⛄️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

- A gorgeous exclusive new dust jacket with iridescent foil glitter and gloss

- Illustrated hard case with gold foil and iridescent gloss

- Gorgeous custom art endpapers

- Printed edges

- Signed bookplates

- Bonus Content: Snow Girl, a Snow Boys short story!

⛄️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: YA Christmas Romance

REP: mlm, cis gay male main characters, ace/aroflux secondary character, gender-neutral / non-labelled secondary character

CW: homophobia (including homophobic slurs and some violence), anxiety, social anxiety, internalized homophobia, alcohol use and alcohol abuse / alcoholism, underage drinking, financial troubles, suggested domestic abuse and spousal abuse, depression, self-harm

LENGTH: 348 pgs

⛄️ SUMMARY:  Dean O’Donnell is a wallflower with a secret and a voice that could steal the show. Preferring to blend into the background at his high school, his world tilts on its axis when he is chosen for a major solo in the upcoming Christmas choir performance. His quiet life is further disturbed when he receives a Secret Santa gift, and an unexpected friendship forms.

Ben Hunter is the boy next door, well-liked but lonely. He wrestles with unspoken feelings for Dean and a family crisis that’s tearing him apart. When he takes a job at the local cinema to help his family out of a desperate situation, his academic life begins to crumble under the strain. But that’s the least of his worries.

As the holiday season unfolds, so do their feelings for each other. But with Dean’s anxiety escalating, and Ben’s life turning more chaotic, their differences seem more apparent than ever. Can they navigate their personal challenges and embrace the feelings growing between them? Or will this winter be the season of missed chances and what-ifs?