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Racheline Maltese can fly a plane, sail a boat, and ride a horse, but has no idea how to drive a car. With Erin McRae she writes romance about fame and public life. She is also a producer and writer on Tremontaine, Serial Box Publishing's adventure of manners, swordplay, and chocolate that's a prequel to Ellen Kushner's gay lit classic, Swordspoint.
Racheline's training includes a journalism degree from The George Washington University, as well as acting and directing coursework at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School (New York City) and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia).
Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous outlets, and she is a regular speaker on pop-culture topics at fan and academic conferences. Racheline also voiced Desire and Delirium in a benefit performance of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman for the CBLDF.
Learn more at: http://www.Avian30.com.
Racheline Maltese can fly a plane, sail a boat, and ride a horse, but has no idea how to drive a car. With Erin McRae she writes romance about fame and public life. She is also a producer and writer on Tremontaine, Serial Box Publishing's adventure of manners, swordplay, and chocolate that's a prequel to Ellen Kushner's gay lit classic, Swordspoint.
Racheline's training includes a journalism degree from The George Washington University, as well as acting and directing coursework at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School (New York City) and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia).
Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous outlets, and she is a regular speaker on pop-culture topics at fan and academic conferences. Racheline also voiced Desire and Delirium in a benefit performance of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman for the CBLDF.
Learn more at: http://www.Avian30.com.
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Blog postIt’s been a really good week for our figure skating novels (they are linked, but are each full complete romances with an HEA about different couples, they do not have to be read in order).
Not only did Ink & Ice get named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, SBTB reviewed After the Gold and really, really got it. And, most wonderfully, the reviewer dug Katie, who might be our most maligned heroine of all time.
Anyway, go check it out!
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Blog postIn my first year of college, in DC, I worked at Lambda Rising, one of the great gay bookstores of all time. I worked in the warehouse, shipping books in plain packaging to queers in far-flung places. This was 1990, before online shopping, and we took orders by phone and by mail. I remember unfolding the order slips in creaky handwriting, a money order for the fees tucked in the middle, and taking the long, long phone calls of someone in Alaska, who ordered several hundred dollars of books eac17 hours ago Read more
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Blog postBack in October (which, consider how 2020 is going might as well be another geologic age), I tweeted in response to the latest article about the romance genre that didn’t actually get what the romance genre was:
Anyone outside of Romancelandia trying to do a hot take about our genre _really_ needs to understand that, broadly speaking, we have both a liberation wing (protagonists bend the world to find their joy) and a compliance wing (protagonists bend themselves to find their joy). <3 months ago Read more -
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Blog postOur ninth novel, Ink & Ice comes out in just a few weeks, and we wanted to give you a preview of it. While it’s a sequel to After the Gold, you don’t have to have read that book to follow this one, which is an M/M romance about figure skating, falling in love, and maybe being a selkie.
It’s very strange. Because it’s not a shifter book. It’s not PNR. It’s just our world, but where sometimes legends and fairy tales are true (which, frankly, is how we experience the world). So if yo6 months ago Read more -
Blog postWe’ve recently started producing some merchandise related to our books, all of which is now grabbable through Threadless.
T-shirts are available in multiple styles and colors (some of which go up to size 5X) and most designs are also available as mugs, totebags, phone cases, and various housewares.
Shirts normally start at $20, but some are now on sale for $15 through May 17. Additionally you can use code FREESHIP5200d6b0e for free shipping on orders over $45 (domestic) / $8010 months ago Read more -
Blog postInk & Ice, available August 25, 2020. Now available for preorder.
Growing up on an isolated island in the middle of Lake Erie, Aaron Sheftall learned to skate as a young child when extreme weather would cut his off his small community — and its legends about a lost colony of seals — from the rest of the world. Now an elite figure skater, Aaron dreams of getting to the Olympics. Yet competition is fierce and in a sport filled with injuries and drama, careers are short. But when a f10 months ago Read more -
Blog postWith the release of The Opposite of Drowning, our workplace romance about publishing, food, international travel, and the drowned city of Ys, less than three weeks away, we thought it was time to give you a preview. While this isn’t the first meeting of our hero and heroine, it is something of an inciting incident. Business trips are always sooooo awkward:
That night Eliza slept poorly and had dream after dream that she was running late. Late for flights, late for meetings, late2 years ago Read more -
Blog postErin and I each started skating after we wrote a figure skating romance.
Then I broke my arm….
Broken arm for me, means price break to $2.99 for you til I’m back on the ice.
Aside from writing being our jobs, these sales will also help me pay my insurance deductible and replace the skating gear that had to be cut off me in the ER (skating is no joke, folks). (date of injury: Feb 13, 2019; expected return to ice: late March to mid-April if all goes well).
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Blog postIf you like May/December romances about publishing industry snark, food trucks, late night talk show hosts, European travel, and apps about competitive extreme dog grooming, this book may be for you.
Includes: M/F central romance with a bisexual hero, M/M and F/F romances in the b plots, adventures in Frankfurt, Vienna, Paris, and NYC, hints of magic, freak hail storms, the drowned city of Ys, a ghost horse, some angry feelings about New York Society, and lots and lots of banter and b2 years ago Read more -
Blog postCardinal, book 4 in the Love in Los Angeles series is now available in paperback!
Hollywood mainstay J. Alex Cook has a growing family — and a growing career. But as he makes the move from television regular to blockbuster film star, the media scrutiny he’s never wanted gets more intense than he expects.
Returning to his childhood home in Indiana to confront his sister and their troubled past, Alex’s vision for his future is thrown into turmoil. Forced to realize that sometime2 years ago Read more
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Books By Racheline Maltese
After the Gold: A Twin Cities Ice Book
Jun 12, 2018
$3.99
Olympic gold-medalist Katie Nowacki has always been determined to get exactly what she wants. There's just one problem. When it comes to her skating partner Brendan Reid, she has absolutely no idea what she wants ... despite their incendiary chemistry.
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Ink and Ice: A Twin Cities Ice Book
Sep 24, 2020
$3.99
Growing up on an isolated island in the middle of Lake Erie, Aaron Sheftall learned to skate as a young child when extreme weather would cut off his small community -- and its legends about a lost colony of seals -- from the rest of the world. Now an elite figure skater, Aaron dreams of getting to the Olympics. Yet competition is fierce and in a sport filled with injuries and drama, careers are short. But when a fluke accident changes the stakes for the entire U.S. team, Aaron sees his chance.
Zack Kelly used to be a war reporter. But a successful book about his time covering global conflicts, an unsuccessful marriage, and a dose of PTSD have sidelined him from the journalism game. When an old friend calls up him with a long-form assignment about competitive figure skating, Zack has no idea what he's getting into. He also doesn't care -- it's a change of scenery and a paycheck.
Thrown together under circumstances neither of them are initially enthused about, Aaron and Zack ultimately embark on an unlikely -- and ill-advised -- romance about trust, myth, and what it really means to be comfortable in your own skin.
Ink and Ice is part of the same series as After the Gold. The books can be read in any order. Katie and Brendan’s story continues here as a key part of Aaron’s coaching team.
Zack Kelly used to be a war reporter. But a successful book about his time covering global conflicts, an unsuccessful marriage, and a dose of PTSD have sidelined him from the journalism game. When an old friend calls up him with a long-form assignment about competitive figure skating, Zack has no idea what he's getting into. He also doesn't care -- it's a change of scenery and a paycheck.
Thrown together under circumstances neither of them are initially enthused about, Aaron and Zack ultimately embark on an unlikely -- and ill-advised -- romance about trust, myth, and what it really means to be comfortable in your own skin.
Ink and Ice is part of the same series as After the Gold. The books can be read in any order. Katie and Brendan’s story continues here as a key part of Aaron’s coaching team.
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Finally, a self-help book about getting things done and liking yourself for people who hate self-help books and love profanity!
Is the cult of positivity trying to kill you? Do you have too much to do, but feel too stressed out to do it? Are you sick of thinking you're a failure because you're prone to panic and procrastination?
Yeah, me too. Been there, done that. Like you, I'm a certified disaster human, but just because we're disaster humans, doesn't mean our lives can't be awesome. The trick is figuring out how to work with the brains we have and the circumstances we've got. I've figured it out for me, and now I'm here to help figure it out for you.
You don't have to change who you are to use your "worst" qualities to get sh*t done, tell your perfectionism to f*ck off, and go after your wildest damn dreams.
Is the cult of positivity trying to kill you? Do you have too much to do, but feel too stressed out to do it? Are you sick of thinking you're a failure because you're prone to panic and procrastination?
Yeah, me too. Been there, done that. Like you, I'm a certified disaster human, but just because we're disaster humans, doesn't mean our lives can't be awesome. The trick is figuring out how to work with the brains we have and the circumstances we've got. I've figured it out for me, and now I'm here to help figure it out for you.
You don't have to change who you are to use your "worst" qualities to get sh*t done, tell your perfectionism to f*ck off, and go after your wildest damn dreams.
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The Opposite of Drowning
Apr 23, 2019
$4.99
Harry Sargent hates his job in publishing, his life in New York City, and his motley collection of disreputable best friends. Making everything worse? He's about to turn 50.
At 27, Elizabeth Anne Abgral loves her job, her life, and maybe even her fiancé. But no one can have it all, and as long as she does everything her old-fashioned, high-society New England family expects of her, she'll probably be happy. Right?!
But when she meets a handsome – and mischievous – silver fox at her new job, that illusion shatters, and Elizabeth finds herself tossing rationality – and her plans – to the wind.
At 27, Elizabeth Anne Abgral loves her job, her life, and maybe even her fiancé. But no one can have it all, and as long as she does everything her old-fashioned, high-society New England family expects of her, she'll probably be happy. Right?!
But when she meets a handsome – and mischievous – silver fox at her new job, that illusion shatters, and Elizabeth finds herself tossing rationality – and her plans – to the wind.
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Tremontaine: The Complete Season 1
May 2, 2017
$9.49
Welcome to Tremontaine, the prequel to Ellen Kushner’s beloved Riverside series that began with Swordspoint! A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; her husband’s dangerous affair with a handsome scholar; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius on the brink of revolution—when long-buried lies threaten to come to light, betrayal and treachery know no bounds with stakes this high. Mind your manners and enjoy the chocolate in a dance of sparkling wit and political intrigue.
Originally presented serially in 13 episodes by Serial Box, this omnibus collects all installments of Tremontaine Season One into one edition.
Originally presented serially in 13 episodes by Serial Box, this omnibus collects all installments of Tremontaine Season One into one edition.
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Tremontaine: The Complete Season 4
Dec 12, 2018
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Ellen Kushner ,
Tessa Gratton ,
Karen Lord ,
Joel Derfner ,
Liz Duffy Adams ,
Racheline Maltese ,
Delia Sherman
$14.49
Sex, Scandal, Swordplay... and Chocolate! The prequel to Ellen Kushner's cult classic Swordspoint is back for a fourth season!
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Tremontaine: The Complete Season 2
May 2, 2017
$14.99
Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. In this novel Ellen Kushner and a team of writers return readers to the world of scandal and swordplay introduced in her cult-classic novel Swordspoint. Readers familiar with the series will find a welcome homecoming while new fans will learn what makes Riverside a place they will want to visit again and again. Tremontaine follows Diane, Duchess Tremontaine, whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; Rafe Fenton, a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; Ixkaab Balam, a tradeswoman from afar with skill for swords and secrets; and Micah, a gentle genius whose discoveries herald revolution. Sparks fly as these four lives intersect in a world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers. Tread carefully, dear reader, and keep your wit as sharp as your steel.
Originally presented in serial form by Serial Box Publishing, Tremontaine is brought to you by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, Paul Witcover, Tessa Gratton, and Mary Anne Mohanraj.
Originally presented in serial form by Serial Box Publishing, Tremontaine is brought to you by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, Paul Witcover, Tessa Gratton, and Mary Anne Mohanraj.
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Tremontaine: The Complete Season 3
Mar 29, 2018
$14.99
Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. In this novel Ellen Kushner and a team of writers return readers to the world of scandal and swordplay introduced in her cult-classic novel Swordspoint. Readers familiar with the series will find a welcome homecoming while new fans will learn what makes Riverside a place they will want to visit again and again. Tremontaine follows Diane, Duchess Tremontaine, whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; Rafe Fenton, a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; Ixkaab Balam, a tradeswoman from afar with skill for swords and secrets; and Micah, a gentle genius whose discoveries herald revolution. Sparks fly as these four lives intersect in a world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers. Tread carefully, dear reader, and keep your wit as sharp as your steel.
Originally presented in serial form by Serial Box Publishing, Tremontaine is brought to you by Ellen Kushner, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, Paul Witcover, Tessa Gratton, and Karen Lord.
Originally presented in serial form by Serial Box Publishing, Tremontaine is brought to you by Ellen Kushner, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, Paul Witcover, Tessa Gratton, and Karen Lord.
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A Queen from the North: A Royal Roses Book
May 23, 2017
$4.99
Library Journal's Best Indie Ebook 2017
Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as Meels, is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family.
But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed, playboy Prince of Wales, offers Amelia the opportunity to change her life -- and Britain's fortunes -- forever.
Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as Meels, is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family.
But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed, playboy Prince of Wales, offers Amelia the opportunity to change her life -- and Britain's fortunes -- forever.
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The Art of Three
Mar 28, 2017
$4.99
24-year-old Jamie Conway has just moved to London, is starring in his first feature film, and hasn't yet figured out how to navigate fame, adulthood, or being bisexual in public.
When Jamie hooks up with his much older polyamorous costar Callum Griffith-Davies, he sets off a chain of delightful complications, including an unexpected affair with Callum's no-nonsense wife, Nerea.
This Rainbow Awards-winning romance features three countries, two men, one woman, and absolutely no love triangles.
When Jamie hooks up with his much older polyamorous costar Callum Griffith-Davies, he sets off a chain of delightful complications, including an unexpected affair with Callum's no-nonsense wife, Nerea.
This Rainbow Awards-winning romance features three countries, two men, one woman, and absolutely no love triangles.
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His Animal Instinct: More Tales of Wild Pleasure
Mar 31, 2016
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Honey Dover ,
Cherry Dare ,
Mona Midnight ,
Tavia Lark ,
Arden Chase ,
N.J. Lysk ,
Alanna Lynd ,
Isabelle Arden ,
Racheline Maltese ,
Erin McRae
$2.99
Nine sizzling tales of gay paranormal romance! Ten best-selling authors bring you their hottest stories of shifters and the desires that cannot be denied.
From wolves to leopards, alphas to omegas, these men can change their shape… but they can’t change who they love.
“A Game of Cat and Wolf” by Tavia Lark. Aloof cat shifter Cameron Liu is happily independent, until a chance nightclub encounter turns his world upside down. Overwhelmed by his instinctive attraction to hot alpha wolf Wesley, will Cameron run from the unfamiliar desires? Or will he let someone in for the first time ever?
“The Omega’s Reluctant Alpha” by Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae. When young omega and newly minted lawyer Andrew takes a job at a local Savannah law firm, he struggles to hide his uncontrolled shifting. Luckily for him, the firm's owner, William, offers to help, ensuring they both get a lot more than they bargained for!
“The Leopard Prince’s Captive Wolf” by Cherry Dare. Leopard shifter Prince Celyn’s country has been at war with the werewolves for generations. But when the golden-eyed wolf shifter Einar is wounded and taken prisoner, both are shocked by the explosive chemistry between them. Can the passion they can’t deny forge a connection across the battle lines?
“Mark of the Pack” by Arden Chase. Gabriel, a rogue omega, can’t stop running from his past—until he finds the one alpha he can’t outrun.
“Operation Wolf: His Shifter Spy” by Mona Midnight. Secret agent and wolf shifter Taylor is on the track of stolen Afghani artifacts, but he gets more than he planned for when he runs into hot antiquities dealer Naresh. Will Naresh uncover Taylor's secrets...and more?
“Omega On a Mission” by N.J. Lysk. Omegas are carers, not fighters, and Gabi is happy looking after his alpha. But when he comes across an animal in danger, his protective instincts flare up and nobody wants to get in the way of an omega on a mission.
"His Alpha's Collar" by Alanna Lynd. Werewolf Alard has devoted his life to hunting down and imprisoning other werewolves. When infuriating alpha Louvel keeps escaping him and sparing his life, Alard needs to reconsider all he has ever believed in - but can he surrender and wear his alpha's collar instead?
“His Hidden Omega” by Honey Dover. Connor Sullivan has two secrets: first, he’s not the beta wolf he’s been pretending to be and second, he’s in love with his best friend Troy Carter. Troy is willing to accept the truth about Connor’s omega nature, but how will he handle his friend’s hidden desires?
"Star Crossed" by Isabelle Arden. The relationship between werewolves and humans is an uneasy one in the tiny town of Claiborne. So what's alpha wolf Riley Sampson supposed to do when he finds himself falling for Theo Sturtevant, the son of the town's were-phobic mayor?
All profits from this collection will be donated to OutRight (outrightinternational.org), which works to protect the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people around the world.
From wolves to leopards, alphas to omegas, these men can change their shape… but they can’t change who they love.
“A Game of Cat and Wolf” by Tavia Lark. Aloof cat shifter Cameron Liu is happily independent, until a chance nightclub encounter turns his world upside down. Overwhelmed by his instinctive attraction to hot alpha wolf Wesley, will Cameron run from the unfamiliar desires? Or will he let someone in for the first time ever?
“The Omega’s Reluctant Alpha” by Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae. When young omega and newly minted lawyer Andrew takes a job at a local Savannah law firm, he struggles to hide his uncontrolled shifting. Luckily for him, the firm's owner, William, offers to help, ensuring they both get a lot more than they bargained for!
“The Leopard Prince’s Captive Wolf” by Cherry Dare. Leopard shifter Prince Celyn’s country has been at war with the werewolves for generations. But when the golden-eyed wolf shifter Einar is wounded and taken prisoner, both are shocked by the explosive chemistry between them. Can the passion they can’t deny forge a connection across the battle lines?
“Mark of the Pack” by Arden Chase. Gabriel, a rogue omega, can’t stop running from his past—until he finds the one alpha he can’t outrun.
“Operation Wolf: His Shifter Spy” by Mona Midnight. Secret agent and wolf shifter Taylor is on the track of stolen Afghani artifacts, but he gets more than he planned for when he runs into hot antiquities dealer Naresh. Will Naresh uncover Taylor's secrets...and more?
“Omega On a Mission” by N.J. Lysk. Omegas are carers, not fighters, and Gabi is happy looking after his alpha. But when he comes across an animal in danger, his protective instincts flare up and nobody wants to get in the way of an omega on a mission.
"His Alpha's Collar" by Alanna Lynd. Werewolf Alard has devoted his life to hunting down and imprisoning other werewolves. When infuriating alpha Louvel keeps escaping him and sparing his life, Alard needs to reconsider all he has ever believed in - but can he surrender and wear his alpha's collar instead?
“His Hidden Omega” by Honey Dover. Connor Sullivan has two secrets: first, he’s not the beta wolf he’s been pretending to be and second, he’s in love with his best friend Troy Carter. Troy is willing to accept the truth about Connor’s omega nature, but how will he handle his friend’s hidden desires?
"Star Crossed" by Isabelle Arden. The relationship between werewolves and humans is an uneasy one in the tiny town of Claiborne. So what's alpha wolf Riley Sampson supposed to do when he finds himself falling for Theo Sturtevant, the son of the town's were-phobic mayor?
All profits from this collection will be donated to OutRight (outrightinternational.org), which works to protect the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people around the world.
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Best Gay Romance 2015
Feb 1, 2015
$16.99
Gay romance is coming into full bloom in the wake of the Defense of Marriage Act’s fall, and the literary world is giving this full expression. New series editor Felice Picano is one of the top gay writers in the world with many awards and much critical acclaim to his credit. Picano has written novels, plays, and major nonfiction works and he is at his finest when it comes to the subject of love. In Best Gay Romance 2015, he gathers a sweepingly romantic collection of short fiction that is long on love (and sex).
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