Award-Winning LGBTQ Press Riptide Publishing Brings
Diverse Modern Twists to Classic Literature
Welcome to Classics Queered–modern retellings of our favorite classics by some of your favorite LGBTQ+ authors, where the guy gets the guy, the girl gets the girl, and queer people always get a happily ever after.
Love has long been the language of classic literature. From Pride and Prejudice to My Fair Lady to Les Miserables, each of these beloved stories features, at its core, two people coming together. But in the stories we studied as children and adore as adults, the central couple is straight. LGBTQ+ people have existed throughout history, but in Western classics, they’ve been erased or, worse, killed or made the villains of the piece. That ends now.
Classics Queered was conceived by Riptide’s Editorial Director, Sarah Lyons, who holds a PhD in British Literature and is an Austen scholar. Disappointed by yet another modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice in which queer characters were marginalized and villainized, she imagined a whole series of retellings of classic literature that centralized queer characters.
The series launches May 28, 2018, and will feature nine LGBTQ retellings by year’s end, with more to come in 2019. The first three installments are available for pre-order:
The California Dashwoods by Lisa Henry, May 28
Print: 978-1-62649-803-7, $17.99. Ebook: 978-1-62649-802-0, $4.99.
A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
Out, Proud, and Prejudice by Megan Reddaway, June 4
Print: 978-1-62649-790-0, $17.99. Ebook: 978-1-62649-789-4, $4.99.
A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
The Henchmen of Zenda by KJ Charles, June 11
Print: 978-1-62649-795-5, $17.99. Ebook: 978-1-62649-794-8, $4.99.
A retelling of the swashbuckling classic The Prisoner of Zenda from a very different point of view.
To read more about these titles, please visit https://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/browse/genre/classics-queered. Further titles will include retellings of Emma, Persuasion, Romeo & Juliet, Les Miserables, Dracula, and many more.
Riptide Publishing is a critically acclaimed, award-winning boutique publisher of some of the finest LGBTQ fiction available today. Created by LGBTQ industry veterans, Riptide Publishing brings a Manhattan quality aesthetic to small-press, author-friendly publishing—and in doing so, elevates and integrates positive LGBTQ representation into the mainstream. Riptide Publishing now fills a critical niche in the literary and genre fiction markets: excellent books, pristinely packaged, that satisfy readers’ desires for high-quality, queer-positive stories, both with and without queer-focused narratives. For more information email amelia.vaughn@
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Riptide Publishing is a critically acclaimed, award-winning boutique publisher of some of the finest LGBTQ fiction available today. Created by LGBTQ industry veterans, Riptide Publishing brings a Manhattan quality aesthetic to small-press, author-friendly publishing—and in doing so, elevates and integrates positive LGBTQ representation into the mainstream. Riptide Publishing now fills a critical niche in the literary and genre fiction markets: excellent books, pristinely packaged, that satisfy readers’ desires for high-quality, queer-positive stories, both with and without queer-focused narratives.
