reviews_and_ramblings | The Rainbow Awards: Awards Guidelines

ELIGIBILITY

- The book must be published between September 2009 and August 2010 (both months included).
- Self-published books are eligible (print on demand publishers, like Lulu.com and Smashwords, are included in the "self-published" umbrella).
- Ebook editions of previously published print books are not eligible. First time print book editions of previously published ebooks are eligible. A book that has been republished by a different publisher after its initial publication is not eligible. A book that was previously self-published by the author, and then republished by a publisher after its initial publication is eligible.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

- Books submitted for consideration will be accepted between March 1 and September 15. Winners will be announced in December.
- A book can be submitted only by its author or by its publisher. Submit a book in the category most appropriate: please indicate Gender, Genre and Length (i.e. Gay / Contemporary Fiction / Novel or Lesbian / Fantasy Fiction / Short Stories Collection).
- The commision can include some books at their own expenses, if they are eligible, especially in those categories with not enough submissions.
- Books are submitted in electronic version (PDFs); exceptions will be considered (please contact me). Submitting the ebook, authors/publishers agree for its distribution with the only purpose of being read by the commission (from 3 to 5 judges). Please, even if you know I already have the ebook, submit it again: it's recommended but not mandatory, that the PDF file has some kind of protection, like a specific disclaimer or similar.
- No submission fees required.

CATEGORIES

- A book can be submitted in only one category.
- If a category receives fewer than five (5) submissions, the category will not be active in this awards cycle. The submitted books will be reassigned to another category if appropriate.
- Gender Category: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
- Genre Category: Coming of Age / Young Adult Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Erotica Contempirary Fiction; Fantasy Fiction; Sci-Fiction/Futuristic Fiction; Historical Fiction; Mystery / Thriller Fiction; Paranormal / Horror Fiction; Non Fiction
- Length Category: Novel (>41,000 Words), Novella (between 18,000 and 41,000 Words) only in Collection (2 or more collected together), Short Stories (<18,000 Words) only in Collection (4 or more collected together), basically a single submission has to be of more than 41.000 Words. Exception will be considered if a single category will have not enough submissions.

JURY

- Judges will start to read books in May; reading period will finish in November (included).
- Each judge will read a minimum of 5 books, with an average of 7. Authors/Publishers/Editors will not read books in categories where a their own book is submitted.
- Each book will be judge using three different criteria: Setting Development, Characters Development and Writing Style. From 1 to 10 point for each criteria.
- Judges will receive only the ebooks they have to read. (PDF files)
- Judges will have to indicate what categories they are not comfortable to read.
- To be a judge, please contact me; Authors/Publishers/Editors/Reviewers/Readers are welcomed, if I don't know you (you are not in my friends list, we are not on the same groups,...), please provide an introduction and some sort of reference for being eligible to judge a LGBT themed book.

Permission to repost granted (and welcomed)

For submissions or questions, please contact the LJ owner at the address you find in the profile, or leave a comment and I will send you a PM

Current Submissions: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/993937.html