Rainbow Awards: State of Art

[reviews_and_ramblings]

2 days to the end of eligibility period (August 31), 2 weeks to the end of submissions period (September 15), I don't think number will change much and so, we can finally say that YES, this year Rainbow Awards will be a HUGE event:

- more than 400 submissions, more than 300 Gay books, almost 100 Lesbian books and 30 Bisexual and Transgender books.

- surprise, surprise, most submitted genre is Sci-Fi/Fantasy (61), following Contemporary General Fiction (54), tie with Erotic Romance (54), and then Romance (53), Mystery/Thriller (51), Paranormal/Horror (46), Historical (31), Young Adult/Coming of Age (29), Erotica (20) and Non Fiction (19).

- I have 147 judges reading books right now, in 4 continents.

- There are 30 self-published authors and 60 debut novels and 63 different publishers.

- Plus we skimmd 2.400 covers for the Cover Contest section of the Awards.

Really, really HUGE!

Comments

[elena-62.livejournal.com]

These numbers give a pale idea of the big work you are doing. I shiver just at the idea of keeping in touch with 147 judges...

Thank you for your engagement, dear Elisa!

Antonella

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

lists and excel are really useful, but still sometime I lost track ;-)

[moniqee.livejournal.com]

wow..I must say it's a mixture of everything - self published and publishers, newbies and veterans.

I cant wait to see the results from this award and see if I miss any awesome stories.

thank you elisa for giving the authors a chance to show their works, artists for their covers and editors their state of "words" art ^_*

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

very nice melting pot indeed.

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I didn't realize we have that many. A big endeavor indeed. Great job keeping track of everyone :)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

we are a little army

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Nice to see so much paranormal romance and spec fic. Would you remind people that they can send such books to us at Lethe Press to review in our quarterly magazine ICARUS:

www.magcloud.com/browse/Magazine/11287

We review 2-3 books with each issue.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Sure Steve, why don't you plan to read the first 3 finalist of that category? that is what I did last year, I read all winners in all categories.

[aileenfan.livejournal.com]

Impressive:) I mean, what you do is impressive:)))

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

it has eaten a little my reading habit/capacity, but I think this is as much important as my blog.