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

[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.