It's Our Birthday! We're Celebrating with a One-Day 24-Hour FLASH Sale - 50% OFF

Riverdale, NY – December 17, 2013 – The innovative hybrid publisher Riverdale Avenue Books is celebrating their first year anniversary by offering 50% off of all books.  Riverdale Avenue Books has published over 50 titles, as well as short stories and audio books within the last year.

Every ebook on the Riverdale Avenue Books website will be half price for 24 hours beginning midnight on December 18^th. The sale will include the best-sellers In Bed with Gore Vidal and 50 Shades of Gay, as well as the Jane Austen mash-up Spank Me, Mr. Darcy and all titles by favorite Riverdale Avenue Book authors Trinity Blacio and New York Times best-seller Marc Shapiro.

Three of Riverdale Avenue Books’ titles have been chosen as book club selections, two have been #1 Amazon on the Gay & Lesbian best-seller list, and Riverdale Avenue Books is the first hybrid publisher to launch a line of pop culture books.

“It's been an amazing year to launch a hybrid press," said Lori Perkins, Publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books. “Our readers continue to have a voracious appetite for erotic romance, popular culture and genre fiction and Magnus, our LGBT imprint, has shown that gay content works well in the new digital space.  Next year should be even bigger."

About Riverdale Avenue Books

Riverdale Avenue Books publishes e-books, print, and audio books under seven imprints: Riverdale Pop a pop culture imprint; Riverdale/Magnus an award-winning publisher of LGBT titles; RAB HSF, a horror, science fiction and fantasy line; RAB Truth an erotic memoir line; RAB Desire an erotica and erotic romance imprint; and RAB Sports and RAB Gaming featuring sports and gaming titles. Visit us at www.RiverdaleAveBooks

Read The Hunger Gays by Nathan Alexander

Riverdale Avenue Books’ Releases The Hunger Gays

The Hunger Gays by Nathan Alexander is a Takeoff of the Blockbuster Movie, The Hunger Games

 
Riverdale, NY – December 11th, 2013 – With box office receipts in the hundred million dollar range for the blockbuster movie “The Hunger Games,” fans of erotic romance will be anxious to read Nathan Alexander’s interpretation of this popular movie in “The Hunger Gays”, now on sale at Riverdale Avenue Books.

“We expect this title to make the Amazon gay and lesbian best seller list just like our previous pop culture sensation, 50 Shades of Gay,” said publisher Lori Perkins.  “I am so pleased that a M/M novel can break through as an homage as part of a pop culture sensation and not be a niche title because both men and women love these books.”

The Hunger Gays explores a world where men are the objectified gender. This allows readers to see what it’s like to be a man, coming of age in a world where women are dominate.

The book ultimately calls into question what defines masculinity, using traditional elements of erotica to explore masculinity, blurring the lines between what separates a man from being straight or gay. 

The Hunger Gays forces its participants to choose a position when they enter the competition: top or bottom. The position determines their fighting method. Our main character, Aspen, is 19 years and not entirely sure what he wants. A central struggle of this story is Aspen forcing himself into the role of a bottom because that’s what he thinks he is. Readers will slowly see that Aspen has top tendencies and sports a very dominant personality.

Just because the main character is young doesn’t mean the rest of the cast is. The best part of the Hunger Gays saga is that it opens up the door to different types of gay men- bears, twinks, skinny, fit, silver fox, and husky. Each character participating in the competition will be a unique archetype of the kind of real men you find out in life. There are no cookie cutter types.

About Riverdale Avenue Books
Riverdale Avenue Books publishes e-books and audio books under seven imprints: Riverdale Pop a pop culture imprint; Riverdale/Magnus an award-winning publisher of LGBT titles; RAB HSF, a horror, science fiction and fantasy line; RAB Truth an erotic memoir line; RAB Desire an erotica and erotic romance imprint; and RAB Sports and RAB Gaming featuring sports and gaming titles. RAB, headed by veteran publisher and literary agent Lori Perkins, is a full service publisher, with a foreign rights and film agency department. Visit us at www.RiverdaleAveBooks
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NaNoWriMo Contest Deadline Extended to Dec. 15th

Riverdale Avenue Books Extends the Deadline for NaNoWriMo Contest

Riverdale, NY – December 1, 2013 – Innovative New York publisher Riverdale Avenue Books has extended the deadline to December 15th for their first annual NaNoWriMo publishing contest, with a chance to win a book contract.

“One of our prospective contestants wrote me a note explaining that she would have to miss the deadline this year because she was working retail all through the Thanksgiving weekend,” explained Lori Perkins, Publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books. “I was so inspired by this writer’s passion to juggle her work and her writing that I realized we needed to extend the deadline.  No one should have to choose between paying the bills and following their dreams.”

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is a month to encourage aspiring writers to begin the novel they have always wanted to write. Participants start writing their 50,000 word novel at midnight on November 1^st and they have the whole month of November to complete it.  “I see the people who participate in NaNoWriMo as artists and athletes, and I know that the work that is produced becomes some of our cultures' best and brightest,” said Perkins.  “I want to give those writers an opportunity to share their best work, and I'm a big believer in immediate gratification, so publication within 12 months should be a nice carrot on the stick."

Submit your 50,000-80,000 word novel in the genres of erotica, erotic romance, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and LGBT fiction to Riverdale Avenue Books by December 15th, 2013 for consideration. Riverdale Avenue Books’ team of editors will evaluate the submissions and choose first place winners, as well as honorable mentions, from each genre for publication by Riverdale Avenue Books.

Winners will be notified by email by February 1, 2014. Each book chosen will be eligible for standard contract terms, including publication as both print and ebook. The winning books will be published in 2014.

Please submit completed novels in a word document format with a brief author bio and book synopsis to submissions@riverdaleavebooks.com.

About Riverdale Ave. Books 
Riverdale Avenue Books (RAB) is at the leading edge of the changes in the publishing industry. RAB publishes ebooks and audio books monthly under six imprints: Riverdale Pop, pop culture titles; Riverdale/Magnus Books, a joint venture with award-winning publisher Magnus Books, LGBT titles; Riverdale HSF, a horror, science fiction and fantasy line; Riverdale Truth, an erotic memoir line; Riverdale Desire, an erotica and erotic romance imprint and Riverdale Sports.

Black Friday Sale Extended Thru Cyber Monday - 25% OFF

Riverdale Avenue Books Black Friday Deal Extended Through Cyber Monday

The Innovative Hybrid Publisher Will Offer 25% of Select Titles for Black Friday to Cyber Monday

Riverdale, New York – November 30, 2013 – Black Friday sales of Riverdale Avenue Books titles were so successful that the innovative hybrid publisher has decided to offer the 25% off discount of ebook titles through Cyber Monday.  Shoppers will be able to purchase their holiday gifts and on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and Riverdale Avenue Books website, riverdaleavebooks.com

The deals started after midnight on Black Friday and will last until the end of the day on Cyber Monday. This offer  applies to books priced over $2.99. Books included in the deal are the Amazon best sellers, In Bed with Gore Vidal and 50 Shades of Gay, and the critically acclaimed Spank Me, Mr. Darcy, as well as all titles by popular best-selling authors such as Trinity Blacio, Livia Ellis and Marc Shapiro. Surprise Black Friday best-sellers included Fangsters, a M/M vampire mafia tale by Ryan Field and Mordred and the King, a M/M Arthurian Fantasy by John Michael Curlovich.

Riverdale Avenue Books publishes ebooks under seven imprints: Riverdale Pop, pop culture titles; Riverdale/Magnus Books, a joint venture with award-winning publisher Magnus Books, LGBT titles; Riverdale HSF, a horror, science fiction and fantasy line; Riverdale Truth, an erotic memoir line; and Riverdale Desire, an erotica and erotic romance imprint and Riverdale Sports.

“If you ever wanted to check out our books, this is a great opportunity,” said RAB Publisher Lori Perkins.  “And everyone loves a gifted ebook! It’s a great way to give a ’stocking stuffer’ miles away."