Trans BOOK Box
Trans Book Box is a quarterly subscription service that suppports trans voices. All books are recent releases by trans authors. All art is created exclusively for the box by trans artists. All products included in the box are sourced from trans businesses. Lastly, we the trans book box team are trans. Our mission is to support trans artists while creating safe spaces for trans readers. We value social change and have a commitment to donating excess profit to trans run organizations that better the lives of trans individuals.
Quarterly Box: January, April, July, October
Subscription options: Pay Quarterly $55 a box, Pay 2 or 3 Quarters in advance $50 a box. Shipping within the U.S. included in all subscription options.
July Quarter
Our July 2024 box is on sale now and the deadline to subscribe for this box is June 30, 2024. The July box features The Prospects by K.T Hoffman along with a postcard&bookmark themed around the book. We will also be including a functional item in this box. This book is an adult romance. This box is approprate for new adult readers.
Identity Representation: Trans Masc, ADHD, Anxiety, M/M, Latine
Goodreads Synopsis
The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, and triumphant rivals to lovers debut romance.
Hope is familiar territory for Gene Ionescu. He has always loved baseball, a sport made for underdogs and optimists like him. He also loves his team, the minor league Beaverton Beavers, and, for the most part, he loves the career he’s built. As the first openly trans player in professional baseball, Gene has nearly everything he’s ever let himself dream of—that is, until Luis Estrada, Gene’s former teammate and current rival, gets traded to the Beavers, destroying the careful equilibrium of Gene’s life.
Gene and Luis can’t manage a civil conversation off the field or a competent play on it, but in the close confines of dugout benches and roadie buses, they begrudgingly rediscover a comfortable rhythm. As the two grow closer, the tension between them turns electric, and their chemistry spills past the confines of the stadium. For every tight double play they execute, there’s also a glance at summer-tan shoulders or a secret shared, each one a breathless moment of possibility that ignites in Gene the visceral, terrifying kind of desire he’s never allowed himself. Soon, Gene has to reconcile the quiet, minor-league-sized life he used to find fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis makes feel possible.
A joyful, heartfelt debut rom-com revealing what’s possible when we allow ourselves to want something enough to swing for the fences.
WHo We Are
Joan (they/them): During the pandemic I was unemployed for multiple chunks of time and kept pondering the lack of subscription services, specifically book boxes, that featured trans creators. I aim to change that. I'm Joan, the founder and CEO of Trans Book Box. I'm an avid reader, a booktuber, a guinea pig parent, and an educator. I identify as trans non-binary, queer, and disabled. Thank you for joining us on this journey!
Key (he/him): Social media manager, talent director and IT person. A gay transman artist living in L.A. persuing an art career. In his personal work he focuses on presenting a variety of bodies and identities to emphasize the diveristy of queerness and humanity. He also makes art involving kink, body horror and cringecore aesthetics. A proud dad of four guinea pigs.
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Step 1:
Subscribe! You can choose from 3 billing options. The longer you subscribe for, the higher the discount. Subscribe by the final day of the month prior to the current quarter to recieve that book box.
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Step 2:
Your box will ship mid way through the month associated with that quarter. All packages are shipped priority mail, shipping included for all U.S. subscribers.
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Step 3:
Engage! We have a quarterly newsletter we send to all subscribers via email. There is a Discord server you can join that acts as a book club and social space. There will be author interviews on our Instagram as well.
