reviews_and_ramblings | 2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Eligible Categories and Submissions

Submissions to the 2020-2021 Rainbow Awards ended on September 20, 2021, and below are the Eligible Categories and Submissions for this year:

Asexual Fiction and Romance

Amy Aislin - Keeping Casey (Keeping Him #1)

Amy Aislin - Shots on Goal (Stick Side #3)

Dusk Peterson - The Awakening (Dungeon Guards #1)

Geneva Vand - Roommates and Space Trees (Iska Universe #2)

John Patrick - Franklin in Paradise

K. Evan Coles & Brigham Vaughn - Straight Up (The Speakeasy #4)

Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey - Socially Orcward (Adventures in Aguillon #3)

W.M. Fawkes & Sam Burns - Harvest Moon (Wolf Moon Rising #2)

Bisexual Contemporary General Fiction and Mystery / Thriller

Ava Kelly - Catch a Falling Snowflake (Snow Globes)

C.M. Harris - Maiden Leap

Grace Hudson - The Booker (Haunted House Horror)

Kathleen Jowitt - The Real World

V. Clifford - At Sea (A Viv Fraser Mystery #7)

Bisexual Contemporary Romance

Adrian J. Smith - Love Burns

Alyssa Rabil - Splinters of the heart

Amy Aislin - Gingerbread Mistletoe (Lighthouse Bay #2)

Amy Aislin - Keeping Kellan (Keeping Him #2)

Amy Aislin - Risking the Shot (Stick Side #4)

Ava Kelly - Snowdrop in a Storm (Snow Globes #3)

CJane Elliott - The Dancer's Dilemma (Campus Connections #3)

E.J. Russell - The Thomas Flair (A M/M Summer Games Romance)

G.B. Lindsey - Standard Candle

J.L. Merrow - Counter Culture

JC Calciano - Revenge of the Brobot (A Steam Room Story)

K. Evan Coles - Hooked On You

K. Evan Coles - Open Hearts (Stealing Hearts #3)

Katey Hawthorne - The Rise of Virginie

L.A. Witt - Aftermath (Vino and Veritas)

L.A. Witt - I Think We Missed Our Turn

L.A. Witt - Name From a Hat Trick

Lane Hayes - Following the Rules (The Script Club #1)

Lane Hayes - Out on the Ice (Out in College #5)

Lane Hayes - Starting From Scratch

Lane Hayes - Starting From The Top

Lane Hayes - Stick to the Script (Ace's Wild Book 13)

Rebecca Raine - The Experiment

Richard Natale - Pigeon

Tanya Chris - #20DaysToLA

Tara Lain - Coaching the Nerd (Nerds vs Jocks)

Tia Fielding - Bar None (Hoppy Hare #1)

Bisexual Fantasy and Paranormal Romance

Adrian J. Smith - Eira (A lesbian fairytale retelling)

Antonia Aquilante - The Envoy's Honor (Chronicles of Tournai #8)

Antonia Aquilante - The Spymaster's Secret (Chronicles of Tournai #7)

Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - Good as Hell

K.L. Noone - Frost & Raine

Kasia Bacon - When I First Saw Red (The Soldiers and Mercenaries)

Lexi Ander - Constant (The Valespian Pact #3)

R.A. Steffan - The Complete Dragon Mistress Collection (Eburosi Chronicles Bundles)

Bisexual Speculative Fiction

Bethany A. Perry - Give Me Grace

E.J. Russell - King’s Ex (Royal Powers II #1)

E.M. Hamill - Peacemaker

R.A. Steffan - Master of Hounds (Master of Hounds #1)

Gay Alternative Universe/Reality

E.J. Russell - Duke the Hall

E.J. Russell - Duking It Out

Kevin Klehr - Winter Masquerade

Kyell Gold - Love Match volume 3 (2013-2015)

M.D. Neu - TAD

Tinnean - More, By All Mores (Strange, Strange World #5)

Gay Contemporary General Fiction and Humor

David Jackson Ambrose - A Blind Eye

Joe Cosentino - Drama Christmas (Nicky and Noah Mysteries #11)

Joe Cosentino - Drama Faerie (Nicky and Noah Mysteries #9)

Joe Cosentino - Drama Pan (Nicky and Noah Mysteries #12)

Rick R. Reed - The Q

Vincent Traughber Meis - The Mayor of Oak Street

Wendell Ricketts - What We Lost in the Fire and Other Stories

Gay Contemporary Romance

Alexandra Caluen - A Little Turn (Private Contracts)

Alexandra Caluen - Awake & Dreaming (The L.A. Stories)

Amy Aislin - Home for a Cowboy (Windsor, Wyoming #1)

Amy Tasukada - Finding Our Love (Aphrodite’s Castle Host Club)

Amy Tasukada - Year Three (Would it be Okay to Love You? #5)

Bryan T. Clark - Far Away

Bryan T. Clark - Gideon's Wish

Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - His Fake Prison Daddy

E. Davies - Redemption (Men of Hidden Creek #6)

Eden Winters - Drifter

Emma Alcott - After the Crash (A Small Town Hearts Novel)

Emma Alcott - Bad Boy (A Masters of Romance Novel)

Fearne Hill - To Hold A Hidden Pearl (Rossingley #1)

G.B. Lindsey - Out With the Old

Hank Edwards - Snowflakes and Song Lyrics (A Williamsville Inn Story)

Jodi Payne & BA Tortuga - Keeping Promises

Johnny Townsend - Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries

K. Evan Coles - Healing Hearts (Stealing Hearts #2)

K.L. Noone - Seaworthy (Character Bleed Trilogy #1)

Ki Brightly - Bully Beatdown

Ki Brightly - Santa's Bratty Elf

Ki Brightly - Staking His Claim (City Hall Book #1)

Ki Brightly & M.D. Gregory - Dirty Secret

L.A. Witt - The Road Home

L.A. Witt - The Walls Between Hearts (A Las Palmas Fencing Club Story)

Laura Lascarso - A Madness Most Discreet

Laura Lascarso - A Soft Touch

Leigh Vining - Can't Erase You

Matt Burlingame - Last Romance

Mia Kerick - Born for Leaving (New England State of Mind #1)

Mia Kerick - Hide Your Love Away (IF I FELL #1)

Mia Kerick - Whatever He Needs

Pat Henshaw - Heart of the Holidays

Pat Henshaw - Making the Holidays Happy Again

Pat Henshaw - The Thaw

Pat Henshaw - When Heart Becomes Home

Rebecca Raine - The Harder We Fall

Rob Loveless - A Family Affair

S.J. Carter - Stupid Love

Slade James - Grumpy Bear (A Bear Camp Novel)

Susan Laine - How I Accidentally Slept With a Prince

Tara Lain - Hair Balls (Balls to the Wall)

Tia Fielding & Lisa Henry - Family Recipe

Tinnean - Always, Ben

Tinnean - The Best

Vinni George - Hold the Door (An Open Doors Novel)

Z. Allora - Not Another Boy Band

Zee Shine Storm - He Made Me Do It

Gay Erotic Romance and Erotica

Charley Descoteaux - Satin Sheets (Kink Awakenings #2)

E. Davies - Barely Regal

E. Davies - Exposed (Dom Nation #1)

Jodi Payne - Soft Limits (A Deviations Novel)

Jodi Payne and B.A. Tortuga - Breaking the Rules (The Triskelion Series #1)

L.A. Witt - Assist (Pucks & Rainbows #2)

L.A. Witt - Bryce (Gentlemen of the Emerald City #3)

L.A. Witt - Cole (Gentlemen of the Emerald City #2)

L.A. Witt - Extra Whip (Bold Brew #8)

L.A. Witt - Luca (Gentlemen of the Emerald City #1)

L.A. Witt - Marco (Gentlemen of the Emerald City #4)

L.A. Witt - Shot on Goal (Pucks & Rainbows #3)

L.A. Witt - Until the World Stops

Laura Lascarso - Master's schiavo

Morticia Knight - Born Daddy (Command & Care #2)

T.J. Blackley - The Silver Medalist

Tanya Chris - A Dirty Dozen (12 hot & heavy M/M shorts)

Z. Allora - Bent Not Broken

Z. Allora - Zombies Blow (Club Zombie Book 4)

Gay Fantasy

Ariana Nash - King of the Dark (Prince’s Assassin #1)

Ariana Nash - Primal Sin (Primal Sin #1)

Arshad Ahsanuddin - The First Age (The Secret Histories #1)

Dan Ackerman - A Lady Who Looks Good When She's Crying (Sunshine and Specter Paranormal Detective Agency #1)

Dan Ackerman - On the Rugged Hills (The Serpent's Throne #2)

Dan Ackerman - The Practical Mage's Guide to Magic and Mayhem

Kevin Klehr - The Midnight Man

W.M. Fawkes & Sam Burns - The King’s Dragon (Fire and Valor #1)

Gay Fantasy Romance

Aldrea Alien - To Poison a Prince (A Tale of Two Princes #2)

Aldrea Alien - To Target the Heart (A Tale of Two Princes: Hamish and Darshan #1)

Angel Martinez - Geoffrey the Very Strange

Beryll and Osiris Brackhaus - The Pet and his Duke

Dan Ackerman - Casual Magic

E.J. Russell - Best Beast (Enchanted Occasions)

E.J. Russell - Purgatory Playhouse

E.J. Russell - Witch Under Wraps (Mythmatched)

K.L. Noone - Cadence and the Pearl

Kim Fielding - Farview (Greynox to the Sea)

Kim Fielding - The Muffin Man

L.A. Witt - Ripples & Waves

Laura Weyr - The Eighth Key

Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey - Red Heir (Adventures in Aguillon #1)

Meghan Maslow - Must Love Demons (Magic Emporium #6)

Shannon Blair - Dawn's Light (Duskblade #1)

Tanya Chris - Impossibly Fond

Tara Lain - Better Red (Ever After, New York #1)

Gay Historical and Historical Romance

Anna Butler - The God's Eye (Lancaster's Luck #3)

E.J. Russell - Silent Sin (A 1920s Hollywood Gay Romance)

Glenn Quigley - We Cry The Sea (The Moth and Moon)

K.A. Merikan - Dig Two Graves (The Man Who Loved Cole Flores and The Man Who Hated Ned O'Leary)

L.A. Witt - The Venetian and the Rum Runner

Lou Sylvre & Anne Barwell - The Harp and the Sea

Mel Gough - A Leap of Faith

Mel Gough - The Valet

Tanya Chris - Manners & Mannerisms

Gay Mystery / Thriller

Amy Tasukada - The Yakuza Path (Flowers of Flesh and Blood)

J.L. Merrow - Stop Cock (The Plumber's Mate Mysteries #6)

J.P. Bowie - Hold Him Close

Joe Cosentino - Drama Runway (Nicky and Noah Mysteries #10)

Joe Cosentino - The Player’s Encore (Player Piano Mysteries #2)

Kim Fielding & F.E. Feeley Jr. - Hallelujah

Marshall Thornton - Cash Out (Pinx Video Mysteries #5)

Marshall Thornton - Fade Out (Boystown #13)

Marshall Thornton - The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch (The Wyandot County Mysteries)

Marshall Thornton - Year of the Rat (Dom Reilly Mysteries #1)

Rick R. Reed - The Man from Milwaukee

Gay Paranormal Romance

Addison Albright - Weekend at Bigfoot’s

Davidson King - The Blood Boss (Black Veil Series #1)

Dez Schwartz - The Dandy Medium

E.J. Russell - Howling on Hold (Mythmatched)

Eden Winters - Never Underestimate an Omega

Edie Montreux - Medium to Well (Haunted Hollywood Ever Afters #1)

Elizabeth Noble - Scintilla (El Corazon #1)

J.P. Jackson - Summoned (Magus Malefica #1)

Joe Cosentino - The Player (Player Piano Mysteries #1)

K.A. Merikan - Feel My Pain

Kim Fielding - Conned (The Bureau #6)

Kim Fielding - The Solstice Kings

L.M. Somerton - Elemental Faith (Warlocks #3)

Laura Lascarso - Book of Orlando (Mortal and Divine #1)

M.D. Neu - The Called (The Calling #2)

Maz Maddox - Smash & Grab (RELIC #1)

Meghan Maslow - The Demon’s in the Details

Piper Scott & Virginia Kelly - Peregrine (A Forbidden Desires Spin-Off Story)

R.A. Steffan - Forsaken Fae (The Complete Series, Books 1-3)

Rob Rosen - Sort of Dead

Rosie Jarvis - JT’s Mission (Valhalla Warriors #2)

S.E. Harmon - Spooky Business (The Spectral Files #3)

Sam Burns - The Fantastic Fluke

T. Strange - Rattling Chains

Tinnean - Rainbows in Your Eyes (Strange, Strange World #4)

W.M. Fawkes & Sam Burns - Wildfire (Sons of Olympus #1)

Gay Romantic Comedy

Dez Schwartz - Hollywood To Horses

Geneva Vand - So We Meet-Cute Again

Geneva Vand - The Mistletoe Problem

Marshall Thornton - Fathers of the Bride

Piper Scott & Virginia Kelly - Finch (Forbidden Desires #6)

S.E. Harmon - Coddiwomple

Tara Lain - Passion of a Papillon (Fuzzy Love #1)

Gay Romantic Suspence

Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - Honeypot (The Phisher King #4)

Eden Winters - Benediction (Diversion #9)

Eden Winters - Decision (Diversion #8)

Fyn Alexander - Blood Money

Joe Cosentino - Found At Last (Finding Giorgio and Finding Armando)

Jules Monroe - Murder in the Big Easy (Wildeblood Coalition #1)

L.A. Witt & Cari Z. - Hitman vs Hitman

L.A. Witt & Cari Z. - Protective Behavior (Bad Behavior #5)

L.A. Witt & Cari Z. - You Had One Job

L.M. Somerton - The Gilded Mirror (Treasure Trove Antiques #2)

L.M. Somerton - The Lucky Cat (Treasure Trove Antiques #1)

Tia Fielding & Lisa Henry - A Desperate Man

Gay Sci-Fi / Futuristic

Addison Albright - When Are You?

Angel Martinez - A Fine Mess (Brimstone #7)

Beryll and Osiris Brackhaus - The PV-3 Mutagen (Virasana Empire: Dr. Laurent #1)

Christopher Michael Carter - Agent Phoenix

Dan Ackerman - Penumbra

Eden Winters - Consorts of the Red King

Kale Night - A Broken Winter

Pelaam - Love Never Dies

Toshi Drake - Entity (A StarStation Novel)

W.M. Fawkes & Sam Burns - Captured (Star Marked Warriors #1)

Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction

Caren J. Werlinger - Face the Wind (Little Sister Island Series #2)

Elke Lakey and D.J. Fronimos - Watching Cars Go By

Geonn Cannon - How to Steal a Star

Iza Moreau - London, Falling

Jen Michalski - You'll Be Fine

Lee Lynch - Accidental Desperados

Liz Faraim - Canopy (A Vivian Chastain Novel #1)

Liz Faraim - Stitches and Sepsis (A Vivian Chastain Novel #2)

Susan Stocker - Find Your Heart (Embellished Memoir)

Lesbian Contemporary Romance

A.L. Brooks - A Heart to Trust

A.L. Brooks - Dare to Love

A.M. Leibowitz - Every Time We Meet

Anna Stone - Forever Theirs (Mistress #3)

Anna Stone - Tangled Vows (Mistress #1)

Anna Stone - Ensnared Hearts (Mistress#2)

C.J. Murphy - Forever Chance (Five Points #2)

C.J. Murphy - Redemption's Road (Five Points #3)

C.J. Murphy - Sovereign Chance (Five Points #4)

Cari Hunter - Breathe

Chris Zett - Heart Failure

D.J. Fronimos and Elke Lakey - Foreign Facades

Ellen Hoil - Safe Haven

Ellen Hoil - Traumatic Love

G. Benson - The Thing About Tilly

Gail Newman - Flight to Paradise

Jae - Chemistry Lessons

Jae - The Roommate Arrangement

Jae - Wrong Number, Right Woman

Jazzy Mitchell - Undertow

Jeanette Watts - A Woman’s Persuasion

Kim Pritekel - Finding Faith: When you're lost, Wynter will find you. (Wynter Series #1)

Lynn Ames - 46

Quinn Ivins - The Love Factor

Quinn Ivins - Worthy of Love

Renee Roman - Body Language

Stephanie Shea - Chef's Kiss

Sue Graham - Playing with Fire

Lesbian Fantasy

Alli Temple - Uncharted

Catherine Lundoff - Blood Moon (A Wolves of Wolf's Point Novel)

Geonn Cannon - Trafalgar & Boone Against the Forty Elephants

Geonn Cannon - Trafalgar and Boone at Magic's End

Jordan Falconer - Prey for Us

K.L. Mitchell - The Road to Kalazad

Kellie Doherty - Curled Vines and Crimson Trades (Broken Chronicles #2)

S.L. Kassidy - Blood Rain (Warrior Class #3)

S.L. Kassidy - Taming the Wind (Warrior Class #2)

Lesbian Fantasy Romance

Angel Martinez - The Solstice Pudding (The Pudding Protocol Universe)

Barbara Ann Wright - Lady of Stone

Barbara Ann Wright - Not Your Average Love Spell

Barbara Ann Wright - The Noble and the Nightingale (The Sisters of Sarras #1)

Edale Lane - Viking Quest

Eule Grey - I, Volcano

Lesbian Historical and Historical Romance

Cara Malone - The Beginning of Everything

Caren J. Werlinger - Invisible, as Music

Edale Lane - Chaos in Milan (Night Flyer Trilogy #3)

Edale Lane - Merchants of Milan (Night Flyer Trilogy #1)

Edale Lane - Secrets of Milan (Night Flyer Trilogy #2)

Elena Graf - The Imperative of Desire (Passing Rites #1)

Lesbian Mystery / Thriller

Adrian J. Smith - Stone's Mistake (Agent Morgan Stone #1)

B.J. Phillips - Murder at Leisure Lakes

Geonn Cannon - Monarch (Claire Lance #6)

Geonn Cannon - The Fight in the Dog (Underdogs #9)

Geonn Cannon - The Wolf Who Cried Girl (Underdogs #10)

Jane Alden - The Crystal’s Curse

Jane Alden - The Payback Murders

Jody Klaire - Hayefield Manor

R.E. Conary - Where The Hell Is Tessa Ryker? (Rachel Cord Confidential Investigations)

Lesbian Paranormal Romance

Ann & Michele Modtland - The Life in Death

G. Benson - Dead Lez Walking

K. Aten - Embracing Forever

Karen F. Williams - Coyote Blues

Lesbian Speculative Fiction

A.L. Brooks - Never Too Late for Heroes (The Superheroines Collection)

Angel Martinez - The Anti-Quest (The Pudding Protocol Universe)

Benjamin Medrano - Chosen of Chaos (Eve of Destruction #1)

Geneva Vand - Loving Olivia

K. Aten - Children of the Stars

K. Aten - Remember Me, Synthetica

K. Aten - The Lost Temple of Psiere (Mystery of the Makers #2)

Matt Doyle - Half-Light (The Cassie Tam Files #5)

Rae D. Magdon - Lucky 8 (Lucky Breaks #2)

Rae D. Magdon & Michelle Magly - Eclipse (Dark Horizons #3)

Sandra Barret - Eye of the Damned (Terran-Novan Universe Series #3)

LGBTA Anthology / Collection

A.J. Fitzwater - The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper

Chris Zett - Glimpses

Daniel M. Jaffe - Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love

Jess Faraday - Shadow of Justice

R.E. Conary - Rachel Cord Confidential Investigations Boxed Set

Xequina Maria Berber - The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis and Other Stories

LGBTA Biography / Memoir and Non Fiction

Johnny Townsend - Racism by Proxy

Karina Manta - On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating

Megan Casey - The Lesbian Private Eye

Mike Talplacido - Kiss My Mike

Stephanie Davies - Other Girls Like Me

LGBTA Young Adult

A.R. Capetta - Stranger Things: Rebel Robin

Auriane Desombre - I Think I Love You

Damian Serbu - The Bachmann Family Secret

David Levithan and Jennifer Niven - Take Me With You When You Go

Gideon Marcus - Kitra (The Kitra Saga)

Iza Moreau - Desert Girl (Elodie Fontaine Mysteries #4)

M. Raiya - Owl

Mia Kerick - Dead Sea (Mia Kerick Story Ballads #2)

Victoria Lee - A Lesson in Vengeance

Transgender Contemporary Romance

A. Zukowski - Blue Jay (London Stories #3)

Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - Penetration Test (The Phisher King #3)

Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - The Prodigal Prince's Fake Fiancé

E. Davies - Freedom (F-Word)

G.R. Lyons - Taken by Storm (Dandies, Inc. #4)

Jane Kolven - The Queen Has a Cold

Tia Fielding & Lisa Henry - Recipe for Two

Transgender Speculative Fiction

Angel Martinez - By Imperial Decree (ESTO Universe)

Dorian Graves - Corpses and Cognac (Deadly Drinks #2)

Eddie Newton - Truth to Light

J-L Heylen - The Deception Engine - Part Three

Minerva Cerridwen - The Dragon of Ynys

Rem Wigmore - Foxhunt

Debut Novel