Tag not just us, but the artists, authors & publishers! You can enter on your favorite days or post on them all! Each photo is a chance to win!
Use these hashtags so we can find you: #RADNov25 & #RainbowCrate! We randomly select winners each month to receive a free box!
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Sep 14: Hardcase Art - Show off the hardcases of Shifting Gears and To Catch a Firefly!
Sep 15: Art Endpages - Show off any of the four endpapers from Shifting Gears and To Catch a Firefly!
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SCHEDULE:
Sep 12: Unboxing - Show off Shifting Gears, To Catch a Firefly and the custom RAD Box!
Sep 13: Dust Jackets - Show off the dust jackets of Shifting Gears and To Catch a Firefly!
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π Post on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (X), Tumblr, TikTok, BlueSky, Threads or our Facebook group for a chance to win. Make sure to tag us in the photo so we can find your entry. Open internationally to anywhere we ship!
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This is your reminder to get any photos/videos ready. If youβve already posted them, feel free to go back and add in our challenge tag #RADNov25.
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A dark graphic with a red-brown brick wall background. Three boxes of the wall background are outlined with a dark frame. The top box has the RAD logo and βSmall Town Big Heart photo/video challenge!β. βSmall townβ is in a thicker font that glows yellow, while βBig Heartβ is in a script font that glows pink. Next to the text is a glowing yellow house icon with a pink glowing heart inside of it. The middle box has the schedule transcribed above with the dates glowing pink, the prompt in bold white font and the details in white font. The last box has the last two paragraphs of text in white font all caps and the hashtags are pink font with a glow.
π Hey, Reading Rainbows! Itβs almost time for our November R.A.D. photo challenge, which starts on December 12th! You can post your photos from now until the end of December; winners announced in January. π§΅
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Who'd Have Thought By G. Benson featuring two femmes lovingly gazing at each other while the plus size Love Interest holds an extremely fat cat in front of a large window opening up to a city.
Book set on a background of scrubs and florals
Who'd Have Thought dustjacket splayyed out
Hardcase with a golf foiled fat grumpy cat on the front and a qoute on the back "Turns out this year was the weirdest of her life. In all of the best ways."
Interior endpages with stethoscope, paw prints, and med bags
I'm sure you've heard about the @rainbowcrate.bsky.social Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale that ends today! So snag some past boxes and on sale books while you can. Who'd Have Thought is definitely one of my favorite past books!
#booksky #queersky #promosky #readersky
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A sketch illustration of Yaakov, an older man with a full beard, tied back hair, and a thick belly.
Presenting Yaakov from The Lair of Qoresis, illustrated by @gagakumadraws.bsky.social ! His short story first appeared in @rainbowcrate.bsky.social Queer and Cozy Winter Anthology.
You can read this on its own through my Patreon!
www.patreon.com/posts/136768...
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It's the last day of our very GAY sale! π³οΈβπ
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what if there was a YET to part of this statement π
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A Dark box with neon rainbows down the side that says RAD rainbow after dark. Surrounded by a wreath with frosted berries
Theme card reads. Small town, big heart. In neon.
I also have my Rainbow After Dark box! Which honestly this may be one of my favorite themes for this box yet! Spoilers ahead! @rainbowcrate.bsky.social honestly they have phenomenal quarterly risquΓ© boxes.
#booksky #queersky #readersky #promosky
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A graphic of a gray background with multicolored stamps of famous landmarks. At the top in a black font with a pale orange outline it reads βDecember Subscriptions Open Now!β. Below this is a translucent gray rectangle. In the rectangle is the December theme image with the cover of Canβt Spell Treason Without Tea on the bottom left and the cover of Static Crush on the bottom right. Both book covers are outlined in a light blue frame.
Our December β¨ RUN AWAY WITH ME β¨ crate is now available for new subscribers and one time purchases!
π³οΈβπ Our December books are Canβt Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne and Static Crush by Alistair Reeves! π§΅
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Solstice Cabin trope map:
Elemental magic, snowed in, Great White North, 1920s Canada, best friends to lovers, talkative husky, only one bed, ghosts in the snow, solstice celebrations, gift giving, mutual pining, magic in the northern lights, huddling for warmth.
It's December, which means it's time for holiday romance novellas! THE SOLSTICE CABIN is a gay historical romance set in Canada's far north. Ghosts, snow magic, northern lights, and best friends to lovers with mutual pining πβοΈ
β¨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
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Vote for the 2025 TFR Readerβs Choice Awards!
Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Readerβs Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.
For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 π©·
Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
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We might not carry Heated Rivalry, but we do have gay, sapphic, trans and queer special edition books! Several of which are on sale right now π
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Excited for this! π
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A rainbow crate box nestled in pine and frosted berries
Queer & Quirky title card with rainbow colored mushrooms
November 2025 Theme nestled in pine and presents
Back in action! I finally got my November boxes from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social (really I think I just got clueless to my own mail) I absolutely adore my November boxes
#booksky #queersky #diversebooksky #promosky #rainbowcrate
Spoilers ahead!
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And They Were Roommates by Page Powars
Current Work Read between customers. I knooooow I've been slacking on RC reads. I'm working on catching up now tho! This is from Octobers box from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
#booksky #rainbowcrate #queersky #readersky
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π BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Epic Fantasy
REP: bisexual mc, gay mcs, sapphic mc, asexual mc, gay sc, sapphic sc, queer normative world
SPICE: β
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LENGTH: 628 pgs
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π OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition
- New dust jacket with bronze & gold foils, & spot gloss
- Illustrated case with pale gold & copper foils
- Art endpapers (Different front and back)
- Printed edges
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Guided by the Star Gods, the characters will have to decide who and what they trust, because the wrong choice could cause everything to burn down in flames.
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The theme image with a transparent red overlay. On the left side is the original cover of The Princeβs Poisoned Vow. On the right is listed the special features for the book as listed in the main body text of this post. Under the list it reads "stay tuned to our social media and mailing list for more information including content warnings!".
π BOOK 2 for January is The Princeβs Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner @haileyturner.bsky.social ! The land of Maricol is poisoned and prolonged exposure will kill you. Royal machinations have been turning the gears of war and tensions are primed to spark.
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βοΈ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Epic Fantasy
REP: wlw & mlm, bisexual male mc, lesbian mc, bisexual li, pansexual li, nonbinary sc, gay sc, queernormative world
SPICE: β
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LENGTH: 454 pgs
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βοΈ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition
- New dust jacket with metallic matte paper & red foil
- Clothbound Hardcase with Silver Foil
- Art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: full color art gallery
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But when sheβs forced to watch over a godschild with potential powers, she finds her priorities changing. Cry, Voidbringer is the saga of how far one will go for freedom and controlβand how easily it can all be taken away.
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The theme image with a transparent red overlay. On the left side is the original cover of Cry, Voidbringer. On the right is listed the special features for the book as listed in the main body text of this post. Under the list it reads "stay tuned to our social media and mailing list for more information including content warnings!".
βοΈ BOOK 1 for January is Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho @artofelaineho.bsky.social ! Hammer was stolen from her home and conscripted into the Faceless army, itβs the only life sheβs known. @michaellaborn.bsky.social
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A sunset breaking over a mountain. The image has yellow-red colors and five rays from the sun can be seen shooting outward. Three distinct cloud formations are in the sky. Above the sun is text that reads βmarked by the divineβ. At the top is "Rainbow Crate" with a rainbow in between the words and "presents" underneath. At the very bottom it reads "- January 2026 Theme -" in all caps.
The Gods have left their mark. In the race for power, only the destined will rise.
The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our January 2026 theme isβ¦
βοΈ MARKED BY THE DIVINE π
Read on to learn more! π§΅
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THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, 2026, Harper Voyager.
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