About Us

Count the first nine stars you see on nine consecutive nights, and on the tenth day, you will find your love…

Welcome to NineStar Press. We’re a boutique publisher of quality LGBTQA romance, erotica, and literary fiction, and we’re located in New Mexico, USA.

NineStar Press is an LGBTQA publisher owned and managed by LGBTQA people. We adore romance and erotic romance, but we also have an enormous interest in showcasing amazing literary works about characters less represented in fiction: ace, aro, trans*, nonbinary, genderfluid, bi, pan, etc. We also like genre-bending fiction, fusion genre, and stories that don’t quite fit into a particular category.

Our Amazing Team

Managing Director

Raevyn

Raevyn is a lover of books…just about any type. She is also Hispanic, panromantic, asexual, and genderqueer, which gives her a different view of the world around her. Her life-long goals have been to make a modest living doing something with books, visit Machu Picchu, and most importantly, build social consciousness in herself and others.

Pronouns: she/her

Cover Artist

Natasha Snow

Natasha is a sunlight-hating Canadian who loves cheese pizza, video games, and fluffy critters. She uses way too many exclamation marks in her e-mails, and values good typography in design. Most importantly, Natasha sleeps each night with a childhood stuffed animal named Puppy, and a rainbow alpaca named Cal Pacca.

Website: Natasha Snow Designs

Editors

AshleyEditor/Copy Editor

Ashley is a published author, an avid reader, and a voracious movie connoisseur. Recently, she relocated to Austin, Texas, with her chihuahua, a Corgi-Terrier mix she adopted from her mom when she passed away, and her big fat cat, Cleo, who rules the house with her mighty claws. She spends her days editing, writing, reading, and repeat.

Barb is a semi-retired Pennsylvanian. Reading is her passion, and other than the works of a few long-time favorite mystery and action-adventure authors, she pretty much exclusively reads LGBTQ literature and holds a special spot in her heart for MM and FF romance.

A blog-site reviewer and audiobook enthusiast, Barb loves words and enjoys the
challenge of finding the best adjective, adverb, noun, or verb to paint a picture readers will long remember.

When she’s not reading or editing, she also enjoys walking her little cockapoo, Dora.

Elizabeth C.

Elizabeth Coldwell is a multi-published author and the former editor of the UK edition of Forum magazine, where she was responsible for publishing a number of now very well-known authors for the first time, as well as honing her own writing.

She lives in East London, is a season ticket holder at Rotherham United, and a keen cook. Her recipe for peanut butter brownies is available if you ask nicely…

Website: www.elizabethcoldwell.wordpress.com

Elizabetta

I live in northern California, and I love to travel, sing, hike in the redwoods, and hang out with family. I’m a die-hard Giants fan. I’ve been known to yell choice language at the screen or car radio during a game.

One of my earliest childhood memories is of figuring out how to read, sounding out the word “Picnic” on an old movie poster. The word just sounded so cool and clicked in my mouth and conjured fun images. It’s why I love writing and editing— manipulating words to get them to do what we want. Word-nerd, that’s me; it’s been a life-long love affair.

I’m so happy to be part of the NineStar Press editing staff, helping to pass the passion on to others.

Stacey Jo

Stacey Jo was born and raised in Louisiana where she spent her early years shooting snakes in the bayou, mud riding, riding dirt bikes, and riding her horse. When she wasn’t out running wild, she was reading everything she could get her hands on. Stephen King was her first love at the age of eleven. Now she lives with her family in Kentucky where she works as a litigation paralegal by day and an editor by night. She’s edited professionally for about thirteen years as well as freelance editing and beta reading for a number of published authors in the M/M genre. She’s also been one of the moderators for the M/M Romance Group on Goodreads for ten years. If she’s not at work or editing, you can find her at the farm with her horse or reading with her blind cat, Church (yep, Stephen King), curled on her lap and her other cat, Cleocatra, at her feet.

Copy Editors/Proofreaders

AprilProofreader

April fell in love with books the moment she read The Borrowers by Mary Norton. Reading brought the world to the small-town Ontario girl. It enabled her to travel safely through the jungles and swamps of South America, stroll the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, through various time periods in British history without losing her head and gave her sleuthing abilities akin to those of Agatha Christie. She always has a book close at hand and can often be found tucked in her favourite chair with her shadow aka small fluffy black dog, and a cup of tea.

KodyProofreader

Kody lives in a small town in Alabama with her husband, their sons, and several special needs pets. She loves reading (romance, mystery, light novels, anything really…), coffee, D&D, peanut m&ms, YouTube let’s plays, coffee, silver and purple, sparkly things, cheese, coffee… She runs a website/blog and sometimes even remembers to update it. www.akakody.com

KristinCopy Editor

Kristin is a born-and-bred Midwestern American and devoted reader (and sometimes writer) of LGBTQA fiction. Her favorite things in the world are shoes, video games, and her bratty cat and grumpy hedgehog. Her least favorite are typos, places without Wi-Fi, and stealth onions in her food.

LizCopy Editor/Proofreader

Liz Borino has been immersed in the publishing industry since 2010. She’s edited for everyone from bestselling independent authors to authors getting their start with a small press. In addition, she has published several books herself. Liz is owned by two cats. On the rare occasions that she’s able to pry herself away from them, Liz enjoys traveling, visiting abandoned prisons, and attending Broadway musicals.

SeraCopy Editor/Proofreader

Sera Trevor has been a fan of gay romance from probably too early an age. (You know those buttons on certain websites that you have to click to verify you’re over eighteen? She would totally click them before she was eighteen. Please don’t tell her parents.)

She lives in California with her laptop, Kindle, and several hundred books. Also, she has some kids and a husband.

TonnaProofreader

Tonna learned to read at a very young age and found herself immersed in the world of words. She could often be found reading in the closet with a flashlight so her parents wouldn’t know she was up past her bedtime. One more chapter, honest! She is a controversy of styles. She loves fantasy and magic and sparkly things, but also zombies, horror, skulls and those chills that race up your spine from a good scary story. She lives in Alabama with an alarmingly large number of cats that all seem intent on being part of the proofreading action.

Marketing / Promotions / Quality Assurance

IndiGo MarketingPromotions

From proofreading to marketing…we’ve got your book marketing and promotion covered. Whether you are self-published or just need a little extra promo, we’ll design a targeted approach to reach the right audience for your books.

Our marketing strategy is geared toward focused exposure in the right group, on the right blog, and in front of the right audience.

ChrisQuality Assurance/Technical Assistant

Chris works behind the scenes to make sure the website is always up and running. He also assists with graphics and technical book content.