Kensington Publishing Corp.
Kensington Publishing Corp. Pucking Strong - by Emily Rath (Paperback)
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- FOR FANS OF hockey romances by Hannah Grace, Elle Kennedy, Lexi LaFleur
- Brown, Grace Reilly, Rachel Reid, Helena Hunting, Anna Zabo, Sarina Bowen,
- Grace McGinty, and Sarah Blue. Readers of sexy, boundary-pushing romances
- With Tiktok/Booktok-driven fandoms by authors such as Ana Huang, Emily
- McIntire, Lucy Score, Colleen Hoover, Erin Watt, Penelope Douglas, Claire
- Contreras, and Lauren Blakely, as well as authors who write complex,
- Well-developed characters like Liz Tomforde and Elsie Silver flock to Emily Rath's
- Jacksonville Rays series as well
- NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!: As with Pucking Sweet (Sept 24, 2024),
- Kensington's TP and the author's indie-published ebook will be released at the
- Same time!
- PREMIUM PACKAGE with GLITTER lamination, spot gloss and designed chapter
- Headers.
- TROPES: hockey romance; sports romance; MM romance; single guardian
- Romance, multiracial romance; workplace romance; a deliciously slow burn,
- Mutual pining, grief/loss, found family, demisexual representation, let's defraud
- Our governments together, baking as a love language, bathtub blues, your quiet
- Matches my loud, jealousy kink, bedazzled WAG jackets, hair care as a love
- Language, “that's my husband”, unprofessional massage ethics, a hopeless
- Romantic double Pisces makes his bed and cries in it, a stoic Capricorn learns to
- Lighten up, that trope where marrying the coworker you're secretly in love with
- Never has any consequences
- HEAT LEVEL: Very, very spicy (4 peppers)
- MM HOCKEY ROMANCE: The 4th Jacksonville Rays novel is an emotional MM
- Romance between a physical therapist intern, Teddy, and Henrik, the team's
- Swedish leftwinger.
- EMOTIONAL THEMES & NEW SETTING: Taking place in both Jacksonville,
- Florida and Sweden, this installment deals with themes of grief and blended
- Families. In it, a player has to rush home to Sweden after his sister's unexpected
- Death leaves him as the primary guardian of his young niece.
- VIRAL TIKTOK SUCCESS FOR THE JACKSONVILLE RAYS: Within 6 months
- Of its indie release in March 2023, #PuckingAround had accumulated more than
- 27 million views. Hashtags related to the Jacksonville Rays series overall have
- More than 20 million views.
- INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH STRONG PLATFORM: Emily Rath is an
- Internationally bestselling author with a ton of momentum on Tiktok. As of
- 8/15/24, she has more than 89.5k followers on the platform and more than 1.6
- Million likes, plus another 35k followers on Instagram.
- BESTSELLING PRINT TRACK RECORD: The Kensington print editions of
- PUCKING AROUND (1/23/24) and PUCKING WILD (3/26/24) were USA Today
- And Publishers Weekly bestsellers that put another quarter of a million trade
- Paperbacks in the market, with the former selling nearly 100k copies in its first 7
- Months on sale and the latter 40k within 5 months. Expectations for PUCKING
- SWEET (9/24/24) are double that amount!
- KINKY, INCLUSIVE, QUEER, POLY, “WHY CHOOSE” (REVERSE HAREM)
- ROMANCES: The Jax Rays series is an open and inclusive world, celebrating
- Themes of queer joy, ethical nonmonogamy, kink exploration, and body and sex
- Positivity. Each book features at least one player on the Jacksonville Rays hockey
- Team meeting and finding their love(s).
- HOCKEY ROMANCE: Hashtags associated with the subgenre
- (#HockeyRomanceBooks, #HockeyRomanceBooksTiktok, etc) have accumulated
- More than 470 million views (as of 9/22/23) on Tiktok. Driven by this Tiktok
- Explosion, contemporary romance starring hockey players is one of the hottest
- And bestselling trends in romance, with mainstream outlets such as the New York
- Times marveling over its popularity (see: https://tinyurl.com/mu8y88t8).
- Kensington Reads Title Highlights: SEPTEMBER 2025
- Crucially, it's also a subgenre that's not oversaturated in the market.
- KENSINGTON IS IN THE EMILY RATH BUSINESS: In addition to the
- Jacksonville Rays novels, Kensington is publishing paperback editions of Emily's
- Second Sons historical romances staring with BEAUTIFUL THINGS (4/29/2025)
- As well as her hardcover adult fantasy duology, Tuonela Duet, starting with
- NORTH IS THE NIGHT in Dec 2025.
- MASSIVE SALES POTENTIAL: Acquiring independently published novels that
- Have built viral momentum on Tiktok has become an enormously successful
- Model for traditional publishers. Sourcebooks has sold over 1 million trade
- Paperbacks in Lucy Score's Knockmeout Series since acquiring the print-only
- Rights. In 2022 alone, Things We Never Got Over sold more than 330k print
- Copies, while Elle Kennedy's The Deal sold more than 130k copies and Neon Gods
- By Katee Robert sold more than 169k print copies. On the hockey romance front,
- Atria has sold nearly 500k copies of Icebreaker by Hannah Grace.
- JACKSONVILLE RAYS SERIES ROLLOUT: One of the first authors to bring the
- Why choose trope to hockey romances, Emily Rath self-published the first 2
- Books in this series, PUCKING AROUND (March 2023) and PUCKING WILD
- (August 2023), and anticipates a total of 5 installments. Kensington is releasing
- The trade paperback editions of books 1 - 3 in rapid succession and publishing
- The trade paperback editions of the remaining books simultaneously with the
- Author's ebook releases.
- PERSONAL CONNECTION: As a queer person living in Jacksonville who loves
- Hockey and hockey romances, Emily Rath's joyful passion for this series is
- Apparent on every page.
- EASTER EGGS: Emily layers in Easter eggs everywhere across all her novels, so
- Fans of her Regency books will catch references in her Jacksonville Rays novels
- And fans of the Jacksonville Rays will notice connections in her Finnish fantasy
- Duet.
- CAN BE READ AS STANDALONE: Each Jacksonville Rays novel features a
- Different female main character and can be read as a standalone.
The Jacksonville Rays go international when their Swedish star forward andthe team's physical therapist have to stage a very real fake marriage in thisdelicious slow burn, spicy MM, workplace hockey r…
Suggested Age: Adult
Number of Pages: 704
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Format: Paperback
Author: Emily Rath
Language: English