Press Release
Fans of quality LGBTQA fiction have been anticipating the launch of
brand-new publisher NineStar Press. Following the company’s “soft launch” in
July, they’re ready to launch fully on November 23rd, 2015.
NineStar Press was created to meet the reading needs of people across
the LGBTQA spectrum. The company was formed when founder Lisa Cox, who has
years of experience both as an author and editor of LGBTQA fiction, noticed a
gap in the market that wasn’t being filled. Though many publishing houses are
focused on straight and male/male fiction and romance, Lisa saw that few were
offering high-quality, professionally edited and formatted books outside of
those markets.
Though NineStar Press will offer plenty gay fiction and romance, it is
also committed to publishing books featuring lesbian, bisexual, trans*, queer,
and asexual characters. It will release only the best, most engaging LGBTQA
stories that you’ll want to read again and again.
What Can You Expect From NineStar Press?
Already, the publisher has a battery of books waiting to be pre-ordered
by LGBTQA readers. The stories run the gamut of genres, lengths, and
sexualities, from short male/male erotica to fantasy with a lesbian protagonist
to contemporary romantic suspense.
Defiant Loyalties by Elizabeth Wilde is one of the novels to be released. It follows the
story of Jack Preston, whose life is thrown into a dangerous game of lies and
espionage, when an assassination attempt is made on his oppressive father’s
life. He finds solace in an unlikely place—in the man who was tasked with
killing his father. The heat level is high on this erotic romance…and the
tension higher. Check it out at NineStar Press now.
Fans of fantasy fiction will also find much to love about Brooke
Radley’s Nightshade. It centers on a
young mage named Eleanor, who has to infiltrate a thieves’ guild to find the
source of a drug that’s ravaging her city. But once she’s reached the inner
circle of the Nightshade Brotherhood, she’s drawn to a beautiful and elusive
thief called Cassandra. Can she risk betraying Cassandra to do what needs to be
done for the good of her city?
Noted erotica and erotic romance writer Elizabeth Coldwell brings two
initial short erotic pieces to the line-up with the seasonal Happy Christmas, Sir, about a sub who
wants to please his Dom, and Trickster,
about a bounty hunter who’s drawn to his handsome target.
Fans of seasonal romances and erotic stories will find a lot to choose
from, too. Check out the site to see
offerings from male romance writer Olley White, erotic romance writer Gillian
St. Kevern, and lesbian novella writer Lucy Carey.
No matter what your taste or interest is, NineStar Press has all the top-quality,
well-written, hard-to-put-down LGBTQA fiction you could desire.
NineStar Press launches on November 23rd, 2015. If you’re a
fan of LGBTQA fiction, go to www.ninestarpress.com to see the full catalogue
today.
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Finding the
People and Stories That Matter Online
By Erica Mills,
Executive Director of NineStar Press
Seven years
ago, I took a chance on making a new friend. That split-second decision opened
up a whole new world to me.
Back then, I
was a college student finding my feet in my writing career. I wanted to write
LGBTQA fiction. The problem was, I didn’t know anyone who wrote what I wrote. I
was living in a small town in Ireland. While I have a great bunch of friends
from that town, none of them identified anywhere on the LGBTQA spectrum, much
less had the desire to write about it.
So I joined an
online writing group. A couple of months after joining, I spotted a post from
someone looking for a writing partner. Her name was Lisa Cox, I discovered, and
she was living in Ireland, too. Importantly, she was writing the kind of
fiction I wanted to write.
It’s crazy to
think of it now, but I almost didn’t respond to the post. I wrote out a
message, deleted it, and then wrote another. My finger hovered over the mouse for
what felt like eons before I hit send. But I thought, “What’s the worst that
can happen?” Turns out, a lot of good happened.
That friend
turned out to be one of the most important people in my life. She’s a truly impressive
person—an editing and LGBTQA fiction powerhouse. I watched in awe as she
conquered the LGBTQA fiction market, both as an author and as an editor with
some of the biggest e-publishing presses around.
So when she
sent me a message saying she was thinking of starting her own publishing press
for LGBTQA fiction, I didn’t hesitate. I told her she had to go for it—and I
knew I had to get involved as an investor and a member of staff.
Lisa and I had
had some long conversations in the past about trying to find good-quality
LGBTQA fiction. We’re both voracious readers as well as authors and editors and
though we’ve been able to find a lot of male/male romances, we had long
lamented how few publishers were actively catering to the rest of the spectrum.
With NineStar Press, we want to
change that. We want to produce the best lesbian, bisexual, trans*, queer, and
asexual fiction on the market.
For all of the
debate about the pitfalls of the internet, my experience since meeting Lisa
online has highlighted one of the greatest benefits of the ’net. Used properly,
the internet is a place to come together, to find the kind of community and
friends that can last a lifetime. It’s where you can go to disappear into a
world of books and stories to suit your tastes and interests—not just what
traditional publishers dictate you should be reading.
We want to open
up that world and community even further for people like us. We’re doing that
by sourcing and publishing stories from the best LGBTQA writers around the
globe.
When you buy a
book from NineStar Press, you can be guaranteed that it was put together by
people like you: people who know the value of finding a place to be yourself, a
place where you can explore your interests, and seeing yourself reflected back
in what you read.
Finding that
kind of resource online is invaluable. I speak from happy experience.
NineStar
Press launches on the 23rd of November. See what’s in store for you from
NineStar Press: go to www.ninestarpress.com now.
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