The Rainbow Awards: State of Art

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Here we are with the second State of Art for the Rainbow Awards. Please remember that your reference posts for the awards are the Awards Guidelines (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/993088.html) and the Current Submissions (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/993937.html). Current Submissions in particular will be always update, so please check it out to see who has already submitted books and in which category. Plus now we have a Jury post with the names of the 65 (at today) wonderful judges: I really think that this year Jury is out of the ordinary, and in a very good way:

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1011930.html

In the Jury there are 22 authors, 5 editors/publishers, 9 reviewers, 27 readers and our new "category", 3 men borrowed to the publishing market from the show business. Don't tell me that I didn't try to have a Jury as various as possible; and of course, I sometime don't highlight it, but this Jury is very much international.



At today I have 65 judges, considering that they will read 5 books each, and each book will be read by at least 3 judges, in this moment I can assure that 108 books will be read and judge.

As for the Categories/Submission the current situation is:

Gay Coming of Age/Young Adult: 4 submissions
Lesbian Coming of Age/Young Adult: 0 submissions
Bisexual Coming of Age/Young Adult: 0 submissions
Transgender Coming of Age/Young Adult: 0 submissions
Total Submissions: 4

Gay Contemporary: 19 submissions
Lesbian Contemporary: 2 submissions
Bisexual Contemporary: 1 submissions
Transgender Contemporary: 1 submissions
Total Submissions: 23

Gay Fantasy: 6 submissions
Lesbian Fantasy: 0 submissions
Bisexual Fantasy: 1 submissions
Transgender Fantasy: 0 submissions
Total Submissions: 7

Gay Historical: 4 submissions
Lesbian Historical: 3 submissions
Bisexual Historical: 0 submissions
Transgender Historical: 1 submissions
Total Submissions: 8

Gay Mistery/Thriller: 9 submissions
Lesbian Mistery/Thriller: 5 submissions
Bisexual Mistery/Thriller: 1 submissions
Transgender Mistery/Thriller: 0 submissions
Total Submissions: 15

Gay Paranormal/Horror: 8 submissions
Lesbian Paranormal/Horror: 3 submissions
Bisexual Paranormal/Horror: 1 submissions
Transgender Paranormal/Horror: 0 submissions
Total Submissions: 12

Gay Sci-Fic/Futuristic: 4 submissions
Lesbian Sci-Fic/Futuristic: 0 submissions
Bisexual Sci-Fic/Futuristic: 0 submissions
Transgender Sci-Fic/Futuristic: 0 submissions
Total Submissions: 4

Gay Non Fiction: 0 submissions
Lesbian Non Fiction: 0 submissions
Bisexual Non Fiction: 0 submissions
Transgender Non Fiction: 0 submissions
Total Submissions: 0

Remember that, for a Category to "survive", I need at least 5 submissions in the Sub-Genre (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual); if I don't reach the 5 submissions in the Sub-Genre, I will compact the submissions in the Genre (Coming of Age / Young Adult, Contemporary, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery / Thriller, Paranormal / Horror, Sci-Fic / Futuristic); if I don't reach the 5 submissions neither in this way, the Category will not be eligible for this year Rainbow Awards.