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🌈 Do you or someone you know have an May queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by Apr 25th! (No AI books or covers)

Include:
-title & author (& series name)
-release date
-Cover image/link
-Cover artist/designer

📷 We will be adding these to our new release list!

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Subscribe to Rainbow Crate! Our original monthly queer book box subscription. Each box comes with TWO hardcover, fully customized, special edition queer books. Subscriptions are open from the 1st to 24th of each month, unless we...

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I’ve been developing my craft to focus on communicating character’s emotions, from tension and conflict to intimacy and heartfelt joy. My main interests in books are fantasy (my most beloved!) and queer themes.

From the artist:
Hi there! I’m Quel, an ace illustrator from Brazil with a long-lasting love for fandoms’ creative spaces and communities. Art has always been a major part of my life as I grew, to finally become my full-time job.

An artist reveal for one of the May books. A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is a magenta-pale orange ombre striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @quel.mdn”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in orange font.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our final artist reveal for the May Knights in Shining Armor crate! Next up is Quel @quelmdn.bsky.social who illustrated the dust jacket for Young King Arthur & the Round Table Knights by Cara Aisling! 🧵

If your box needs to be reshipped because you did not get your address updated on time, you will be responsible for any reshipping fees.

If you do not send your address update by April 18th, we cannot guarantee it will be able to be updated before the box ships. Once the shipping label is printed we will be unable to change the address, due to the large amount of orders.

If you need additional help, please email us at support@rainbowcratebookbox.com with your order number and updated address.

ALL address update requests must be in by the end of day Saturday, April 18th.

Please log in to your account and check the address on your April crate purchase or renewal. You can edit your address on the order through your Rainbow Crate account.

A graphic of a light brown wooden background. Text at the top reads “Shipping Soon!” in white font with a black outline. In the bottom left is a white Rainbow Crate branded box with sparkling lights coming out of it. Above the box, towards the right, is the April theme image with two book covers below it: Holy Wrath by Victoria Mier and The Crack at the Heart of Everything by Fiona Fenn. Both book covers have a purple-yellow border frame. Text on the bottom center reads “For Address Updates: Login to your account to change your address or email support@rainbowcratebookbox.com for help.”.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! BIG NEWS: Our April Light vs Dark books arrived at our packing center! We expect these boxes to begin shipping out next week! 🧵

Fourth Row: Fractured Magic by EM. Rowene, Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler, Gwen & Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher, First Tilt by Lucien Burr, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner.

Third Row: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, The Sun King’s Dawn by Briar Niran, Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang, Sir Callie & The Champions of Helston.

Second Row: The Wolf & his King by Finn Longman, The Afterward by E.K. Johnston, Once & Future by A.R. Capetta & Cory McCarthy, The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond.

First Row: Seure the Tempered by Rien Gray, A Taste of Iron & Gold by Alexandra Rowland, Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp, Goldheart by Tess Carletta, The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri, The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan.

A post of book recommendations based on the Rainbow Crate May 2026 theme. Twenty books in four rows: the first and fourth row have six book covers which stretch across the entire width of the graphic. Rows two and three have four books with two on each side. In the middle of these is a graphic with a dark gray brick background and a red pennant banner hanging on it. A Rainbow Crate logo with no text is at the top. Text below reads “May 2026 Knights in Shining Armor Book Recs” in all caps. “Knights in Shining Armor” is in a gray neon font, while “May 2026” is in a black font and “Book Recs” is in a white font.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our recommendation post for next month’s theme! Here are twenty books that we think also fit the May theme of Knights in Shining Armor! These are a mix of Adult and Young Adult titles. 🧵

Subscribe to Rainbow Crate! Our original monthly queer book box subscription. Each box comes with TWO hardcover, fully customized, special edition queer books. Subscriptions are open from the 1st to 24th of each month, unless we...

🌈 Subscription spots are currently open for 1, 3 and 6 month subscription spots! These will start with the April crate! Use RAINBOW10 to save on your first month! Subscribe on our website!

My path towards being a book artist started out by making fanart for my friends' fanfics, and that love of the author community and illustration has only grown. I am also a teacher and "budding" gardening enthusiast!

From the artist:
I am Nicole Deal, she/her, a 30-something bi/aro southerner from the U.S. A. who LOVES books- especially in the YA, Fantasy and Romance genres.

An artist reveal for one of the May books. A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is an ombre blue-red striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @nicoledeal.bsky.social”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in an orange font.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the April Light vs Dark crate! Next up is Nicole @nicoledeal.bsky.social who illustrated the dust jacket for Tarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart @ericaroseeberhart.bsky.social 🧵

Use these hashtags so we can find you: #RADFeb26 & #RainbowCrate! Open internationally to anywhere we ship! Entries open until the 20th!

Close up of the front endpapers which is an illustration of two women dancing at a festival. One woman is dipping the other while staring at her lips. The background has a fire and other dancers.

Close up of the back endpapers which is an illustration of two women on a bed together. The woman on top only wears a band around her chest. The woman underneath her has a sheet draped around her as she holds on to a pillow on the bed.

- Endpapers illustrated by @everteinnsfw.bsky.social (Different front and back)
- Bound-In Author Letter!
- Bonus Content: Full Color Map!
- Signed by the author!

Close up of the printed edges which have a purple background. Illustrated is an ornate sword with red fabric twining around it. Plant leaves twine around the sword in the spots where the red fabric does not touch it. At the top is a crescent moon. The edges are on top of the dust jacket with orange and yellow flowers/leaves to either side.

- Printed Edges by @ivyntr.bsky.social

Close up of the front naked case. One orange and one yellow/gold flower sit at the top right and bottom left corner of the case. The book is half on the dust jacket and half on the red brick background.

Close up of the back naked case. One orange and one yellow/gold flower sit at the top right and bottom left corner of the case. The book is half on the dust jacket and half on the red brick background.

- Foiled Hardcase by @Lichen_And_Limestome!

Close up of the front cover of The Curse of the Goddess and the spoiler card. Underneath them sit various orange and yellow flowers. Everything lies on a red brick background.

Close up of the back cover of The Curse of the Goddess and the spoiler card. Underneath them sit various orange and yellow flowers. Everything lies on a red brick background.

- All-new Dust Jacket illustrated by @ivyntr.bsky.social
- Cover & Interior Design by @manicfemme.bsky.social

Close up of the signed tip-in page. The page has a decorative border, it is signed inside of the border in a black marker.

FEATURING:
- Muscle Mommy Lesbian MC!
- Animal Companion!
- Elemental Magic!
- Forced Proximity Trope!

The Curse of the Goddess by C.C. González FEATURING:- Muscle Mommy Lesbian MC!- Animal Companion!- Elemental Magic!- Forced Proximity Trope!RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVES:- All-new Dust Jacket illustrated by @IvyNguyenTran!- Cover & Interior De...

Full boxes and single editions are available in the shop now!

The dust jacket laid out above the full naked hard case. Pale orange flowers sit at each corner of the dust jacket. Yellow/gold flowers sit at each corner of the hardcase. Everything lies on a red brick background.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for the February RAD Threads of Fate photo challenge! Today we’re featuring book 1: The Curse of the Goddess by C.C. González @ccgonzalez.bsky.social 🧵

Subscribe to Rainbow Crate! Our original monthly queer book box subscription. Each box comes with TWO hardcover, fully customized, special edition queer books. Subscriptions are open from the 1st to 24th of each month, unless we...

Our April books are Holy Wrath by Victoria Mier and The Crack at the Heart of Everything by Fiona Fenn!

The April box will be available until the end of the day on April 18th, subscriptions will be closed starting April 19th.