2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Submerge Eleanor Musgrove

Submerge Eleanor Musgrove
Gay - Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: Manifold Press (February 7, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1908312637
ISBN-13: 978-1908312631
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Jamie Hill walks into his local LGBT+ nightclub, Submerge, intending to make friends and have a good time. When he meets comedian Addie Crewe and her girlfriend Gina Wilson, his night is already looking up – but it’s the man Gina introduces him to who really catches his eye. Miles Bradford seems to be everything Jamie could want in a man: smart, funny, kind. Jamie can’t take his eyes off him. But though Submerge might sparkle on the surface, Jamie knows that the club, just like himself, hides darker secrets in its depths … and even Miles might not be as clean-cut as he appears.

2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Ardent Heloise West

Ardent Heloise West
Gay - Historical Romance
File Size: 2933 KB
Print Length: 229 pages
Publisher: Manifold Press (February 1, 2017)
Publication Date: February 1, 2017
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In the village of Torrenta, master painter Morello has created a color that mimics the most expensive pigment of all, the crimson red. Master Zeno, from strife-ridden Medici Florence, tells him the color gives him a competitive advantage – but Morello must be careful. Fraud is ever-present in the dye and pigment markets.

As they work together in Torrenta, Morello falls hard for Zeno’s assistant, Benedetto Tagliaferro, a young man of uncommon beauty and intelligence. Benedetto is still fixed on his old lover, the master painter Leo Guisculo, and cannot return Morello’s affections.

But when Leo dies in a terrible accident, it’s to Morello that Zeno and Benedetto turn for help. And Morello soon finds that in Florence, every surface hides layers of intrigue.

2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Break of Another Day Jay Lewis Taylor

Break of Another Day Jay Lewis Taylor
Gay - Anthology / Collection / Historical
File Size: 2363 KB
Print Length: 53 pages
Publisher: Manifold Press (February 1, 2017)
Publication Date: February 1, 2017
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The Great War is over. Jack Townsend, no longer a hospital orderly, is back at work in his photographer’s shop in Lewisham. But there is no peace yet; his blackmailer is still in business, and Celia Vavasour seems determined to manage his life. All his life; even his love-life ...

Meanwhile in Sussex, David Lewry, former army officer, is still holding off from a closer relationship with Alan Kershaw, once in the Navy and now the village’s GP. Lew knows how much Alan wants him, but this last step is one he cannot take - not yet, unless something changes ...

2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: A Night with the Knight of the Burning Pestle Julie Bozza

A Night with the Knight of the Burning Pestle Julie Bozza
Gay - Contemporary General Fiction
File Size: 1797 KB
Publisher: Manifold Press (May 1, 2017)
Publication Date: May 1, 2017
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Dale is proud of how his acting career is progressing. Tonight, for instance, is the last night (at the beautiful Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) of a well-received run of Beaumont's "The Knight of the Burning Pestle", in which he plays Rafe. But his colleague Topher, who plays Jasper, seems to think something is missing in Dale's life. They're not really friends, and Dale sees little point in reprising the one night on which they were not-really-friends with benefits.

However! Despite the distractions of performing this chaotic two-plays-within-a-play, Dale is plagued by the niggling doubts prompted by Topher. Dale might be better off paying attention, though – because maybe Francis Beaumont, writing over 400 years ago, already provided the answers to Dale's dilemma.

2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: While You See a Chance Alexa Milne

While You See a Chance Alexa Milne
Gay - Contemporary Romance
File Size: 2224 KB
Publisher: Manifold Press (May 1, 2017)
Publication Date: May 1, 2017
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As children growing up in South Wales, Sion, Phil and Helen were known as the Three Musketeers, always together and never apart - but time moves on. Sion left to lecture in history at Yale. Phil married Helen because it seemed the obvious thing to do, and they settled down to life in Manchester.

Now all three are approaching sixty. After the death of his partner, and wanting to solve a family mystery, Sion returns to his childhood home to start again. When Helen announces she wants a divorce, Phil also returns home, to a new teaching job, and to renovate the ruin of a house he and Sion once dreamed of living in.

Neither man knows the other is back. Neither man knows how the other feels. With so much unsaid, and so many years apart, can Sion and Phil finally face the truth and take a chance on finding happiness together?