Book Buzz: Jan 2010
Mar. 14th, 2010 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reviews_and_ramblingsWell, I didn't read this before, and enough to say that I'm deeply honored: the Rainbow Awards were included in the Book Buzz for January in the new Lambda Literary Website.
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/datastream/book-buzz/01/01/book-buzz-jan-2010/
Here what they said:
"Two books shared first place for Best Overall Gay Novel in the 2009 Rainbow Awards competition, founded last year “to celebrate the best in LGBT writing”: Out of Position, by Kyell Gold (Sofawolf Press), and Whistling in the Dark, by Tamara Allen (Lethe Press). More than twenty publishers participated. To view the finalists and winners in all categories, click here.
One of the Rainbow winners was Jere’ M. Fishback’s Josef Jaeger (Prizm), a young adult novel that had previously won a Top Choice Award from Flamingnet Reviews."
And not only that, we (as me and the Rainbow Awards contributors) were the second news, after the article on the Top 100 Out Celebrities, and for an Award that is only 1 years old and hold by a journal that is only 3 years old, I think it's a great achievement, something that gives me strength to do it again next year.
BTW, when I decided to host the Rainbow Awards, my idea was to give space to LGBT books that usually have not in normal awards, like ebooks or small print publishers. It was also to distract people from the polemic on the "author gender", but it was not an award against another one, and I think I have never presented it like that. So yes, I'm proud that LLF named Rainbow Awards as an interesting news for the Book Buzz.
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/datastream/book-buzz/01/01/book-buzz-jan-2010/
Here what they said:
"Two books shared first place for Best Overall Gay Novel in the 2009 Rainbow Awards competition, founded last year “to celebrate the best in LGBT writing”: Out of Position, by Kyell Gold (Sofawolf Press), and Whistling in the Dark, by Tamara Allen (Lethe Press). More than twenty publishers participated. To view the finalists and winners in all categories, click here.
One of the Rainbow winners was Jere’ M. Fishback’s Josef Jaeger (Prizm), a young adult novel that had previously won a Top Choice Award from Flamingnet Reviews."
And not only that, we (as me and the Rainbow Awards contributors) were the second news, after the article on the Top 100 Out Celebrities, and for an Award that is only 1 years old and hold by a journal that is only 3 years old, I think it's a great achievement, something that gives me strength to do it again next year.
BTW, when I decided to host the Rainbow Awards, my idea was to give space to LGBT books that usually have not in normal awards, like ebooks or small print publishers. It was also to distract people from the polemic on the "author gender", but it was not an award against another one, and I think I have never presented it like that. So yes, I'm proud that LLF named Rainbow Awards as an interesting news for the Book Buzz.
