The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our June 2025 theme is…

🏳️🌈 WE’RE HERE! WE’RE QUEER! GET USED TO IT! 🏳️⚧️

We aren’t going anywhere! We are not going to let anyone silence our queer voices! Now more than ever, it’s important to read and engage with queer books, and show the world that queer people have always, and will always exist! This June marks the beginning of our 6th year in operation! Happy Birthday to us!

That said, come celebrate with our second original anthology: It’s A Queer, Queer Summer, edited by Rachel Skelton (@TheReadingSkeleton)!

🏳️🌈 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:  ⁠

- A gorgeous dust jacket with pink and blue foiling (it matches the first anthology)

- Illustrated hard case with orange foil

- Stunning custom art endpapers (slightly different front and back)

- Printed edges

- 12 never-before-released original short stories by:

🌈 Ashley Davis

🌈 Simon Doyle

🌈 Eden Emory

🌈 S.E. Gallant

🌈 M.A. Grant

🌈 Deanna Grey

🌈 River Hale

🌈 Craig Montgomery

🌈 Rosiee Thor

🌈Addie Tsai

🌈 Ali Williams

🌈 T.N. Wren

🏳️🌈 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE: 

GENRE: A little of everything!

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

LENGTH: 306 pgs

🏳️🌈 SUMMARY: 

The warmth of the sun on your skin. The scent of freshly cut grass. Chilled, juicy watermelon.

What does summer mean to you? Whether it’s road trips with friends, the twinkle of the stars at night, or sandy sapphire beaches, come peek into the lives of queer characters and see what summer means to them.

It’s a Queer, Queer Summer features twelve never-before-published stories by authors from a diverse array of identities and backgrounds. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have loved putting it together ♡

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🏳️⚧️ BOOK 2 for June is Veil us in Gold by Shepard DiStasio!

🏳️⚧️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: ⁠

- Signed edition!

- New dust jacket with Gold Foil, Silver Foil, and spot gloss

- Foiled hardcase heavily inspired/recreated from original cover art with Gold Foil, Silver Foil, and spot gloss

- Beautiful art endpapers (same front/back)

- Printed edges

- Bonus Content: sneak peek of book 2!

🏳️⚧️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:

GENRE: Dark Fantasy

REP: nblm, t4t, Asexual, nonbinary, neurodivergent and chronically ill mc, BIPOC main cast, autism, ADHD, PTSD, addiction, fat scs, various LGBTQIA+ relationships

SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆

LENGTH: 524 pgs

🏳️⚧️ SUMMARY:

Find a weapon lost to myth, and Drake can save the world.

Find a creature lost to war, and they can save themself.

Drake Elýnus was never supposed to be in Tārāmen. They were never supposed to be working for Tārāmen’s royal family. They were never supposed to do the things they’ve done. But Drake hasn’t stood a chance since the day their home was burned to the ground, the boy they loved was executed in front of them, and wayward magic cast them into a life of lonely immortality far from anything they’d ever known. All they have is revenge.

But when the culmination of their efforts backfires into a death sentence, their only hope is to make a deal with the very queen they tried to ruin.

The world around Drake is unraveling. Whispers of ancient monsters bubble beneath the surface. Fights escalate on the borders of a country that has not been its own in fifty years. Treaties are no longer worth any more than the blood they were written in. And a mysterious general they all call the ‘White Rose’ is apparently the face of it all.

With the gilded gold of society finally peeling, Drake might have a chance to escape—but only if they confront who they were truly supposed to be.