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2013 Rainbow Awards Finalists

  • Submissions period ended on September 5, 2013
  • Books submitted for consideration were accepted between February 15 and September 5, 2013.
  • Winners will be announced on December 8, 2013.
Below the Finalists for each category, winners will be announced on December 8, 2013

TOTAL NUMBER OF FINALISTS: 246 for 22 categories

more or less all books scoring above 32 on a possible rate of 40.


Badges are designed especially for the Rainbow Awards by Paul Richmond

Click on the cover for the details of each book

B/T & LGBT Contemporary Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary & Historical Romance




B/T & LGBT Fantasy, Sci-Fi Futuristic & Paranormal Romance




Gay Contemporary General Fiction






Gay Contemporary Romance

















Gay Fantasy







Gay Historical Romance






Gay Mystery Thriller







Gay Paranormal Romance










Gay Sci-Fi Futuristic





Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction





Lesbian Contemporary Romance







Lesbian Fantasy



Lesbian Historical Romance




Lesbian Mystery Thriller






Lesbian Paranormal Romance





Lesbian Sci-fi Futuristic



LGBT Biography Memoir Non Fiction Poetry




LGBT Erotic Romance









LGBT Erotica



LGBT Historical




LGBT Romantic Comedy




LGBT Young Adult






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[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2013-10-01 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Lara unfortunately this year there were many many submissions, i had to cut it down at some level, the jury wouldnt be able to read them all for second period again, so sorry you werent in the finalists

[identity profile] bauderike.livejournal.com 2013-10-02 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Elisa, I can admit that I could be ignored. Only replying to your comment I'd say that if the jury is "unable" to read, why did they undertake the task? It sounds odd, at least.

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2013-10-02 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Lara, let me explain better: the Jury read ALL 390 books for the first period (6 months), now they have to read again all books (different judges), only in 2 months. So it's impossible they read AGAIN all 390, we had to pick "finalists". More or less 200 books is what we were able to read again considering the 2 months window. Last year we had only the first reading period, so basically, last year this of today was the end of the awards. I asked to the Jury an extra effort, two more months to re-read the finalists.
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