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2016 Rainbow Awards: Under Leaden Skies by Sandra Lindsey (187-07-21-2016)

Under Leaden Skies by Sandra Lindsey
Gay Historical
Publisher: Manifold Press (August 1, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: Under Leaden Skies

Love. Loss. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Honour. Duty. Family.

In 1939, the arrival of war prompted 'Teddy' Maximilian Garston to confess his love to his childhood friend, Huw Roberts. Separated by duty - Teddy piloting Sunderland flying boats for RAF Coastal Command, and Huw deep underground in a South Wales coal mine - their relationship is frustrated by secrecy, distance, and the stress of war that tears into every aspect of their lives.

After endless months of dull patrols, a chance encounter over the Bay of Biscay will forever change the course of Teddy's life. On returning to Britain, how will he face the consequences of choices made when far from home? Can he find a way to provide for everyone he loves, and build a family from the ashes of wartime grief?

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Island Doctor by Sue Brown (186-07-21-2016)

Island Doctor (Island Medics #1) by Sue Brown
Gay Contemporary Romance
Series: Isle
Paperback: 214 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (January 11, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1634767551
ISBN-13: 978-1634767552
Amazon: Island Doctor (Island Medics #1)
Amazon Kindle: Island Doctor (Island Medics #1)

Island Medics: Book One

An Isle Novel

Dr. Jeff Martin has spent five years as a rural general practitioner on the Isle of Wight, hiding the fact he’s gay. He travels in secret to see his partner, Tris, but when he discovers Tris has been cheating on him, he ends their relationship. Then Jeff meets island native Cameron Gillard. Cameron is down-to-earth, lively, and treats Jeff like he’s the most important person in his life. Jeff blooms under Cameron’s attention, and he decides to come out to his colleagues and friends.

Just when things are going well, Tris reappears out of the blue. Jeff is no longer interested in Tris, but it seems he has two men to convince. Tris, who can’t believe Jeff is serious about wanting to end their relationship, and Cameron, who can’t hide his jealousy of Tris.

Jeff is certain about one thing―the only man he wants in his life is Cameron. Now he just needs to prove it to him.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Embracing the Dawn by Jeannie Levig (185-07-21-2016)

Embracing the Dawn by Jeannie Levig
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (June 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1626395764
ISBN-13: 978-1626395763
Amazon: Embracing the Dawn
Amazon Kindle: Embracing the Dawn

Does love have a chance when no one knows she wants it?

Jinx Tanner is an ex-con trying to piece together a life on the outside and heal her relationship with her half-sister who hasn’t spoken to her in over twenty-five years.
Romantic love is now here on her radar. E. J. Bastien is a business executive with her life and heart under control. She has a successful career, a woman in her bed whenever she wants one, and a healthy relationship with her grown children—as long as they don’t find out she’s gay. She has no desire for romantic entanglements.

When these two women awaken after a one-night stand to find their lives inextricably entwined, love has its work cut out for it.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr (184-07-21-2016)

Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr
Gay Fantasy
Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: Less Than Three Press (November 22, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620046709
ISBN-13: 978-1620046708
Amazon: Tournament of Losers
Amazon Kindle: Tournament of Losers

All Rath wants is a quiet, peaceful life. Unfortunately, his father brings him too much trouble—and too many debts to pay—for that to ever be possible. When the local crime lord drags Rath out of bed and tells him he has three days to pay his father's latest debt, Rath doesn't know what to do. There's no way to come up with so much money in so little time. Then a friend poses an idea just ridiculous enough to work: enter the Tournament of Losers, where every seventy-five years, peasants compete for the chance to marry into the noble and royal houses. All competitors are given a stipend to live on for the duration of the tournament—funds enough to cover his father's debt. All he has to do is win the first few rounds, collect his stipend, and then it's back to trying to live a quiet life...

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2016 Rainbow Awards: The High King's Golden Tongue by Megan Derr (183-07-21-2016)

The High King's Golden Tongue by Megan Derr
Bisexual Fantasy Romance
Series: Tales of the High Court
Paperback: 406 pages
Publisher: Less Than Three Press; 1 edition (July 13, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620046245
ISBN-13: 978-1620046241
Amazon: The High King's Golden Tongue
Amazon Kindle: The High King's Golden Tongue

Prince Allen has trained his entire life to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious mother, who has made their kingdom one of the wealthiest and most influential in the empire. For the past few years he has trained to become the new consort of the High King. The only thing no one prepared him for was the stubborn, arrogant High King himself, who declares Allen useless and throws him out of court. High King Sarrica is ruling an empire at war, and that war will grow exponentially worse if his carefully laid plans do not come to fruition. He's overwhelmed and needs help, as much as he hates to admit it, but it must be someone like his late consort: a soldier, someone who understands war, who is not unfamiliar with or afraid of the harsher elements of rule. What he doesn't need is the delicate, pretty little politician foisted on him right as everything goes wrong.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: The Short and Long Of It by Paul Alan Fahey (182-07-21-2016)

The Short and Long Of It: Expand, Adapt, and Publish Your Short Fiction by Paul Alan Fahey
LGBT Non Fiction
Publisher: JMS Books LLC (April 25, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: The Short and Long Of It: Expand, Adapt, and Publish Your Short Fiction

Do you write short fiction but long to s-t-r-e-t-c-h those tight little 55ers, flash pieces, and short stories into longer, publishable work? Do you have binders full of short pieces with characters you’d love to flesh out? Are you dying to tell the rest of these stories?

If so, The Short and Long of It is for you!

Award-winning short fiction writer Paul Alan Fahey shows you how to expand and adapt your brief creations into longer, more satisfying stories, plays, novellas, and novels pitch perfect for publication in the e-age.

This book will help you practice expanding your short fiction. Through detailed examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to:

Adapt 55 fiction into flash fiction;
Adapt flash fiction into short stories and plays;
Adapt flash memoir into personal essays;
Write a tight logline;
Develop a story theme;
Build three-act structure; and
Develop characters and enhance backstory.

So grab a copy today and start writing longer stories tomorrow!

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Blow Down by J.L. Merrow (181-07-21-2016)

Blow Down (The Plumber's Mate #4) by J.L. Merrow
Gay Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (July 12, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619235803
ISBN-13: 978-1619235809
Amazon: Blow Down (The Plumber's Mate #4)
Amazon Kindle: Blow Down (The Plumber's Mate #4)

Death is what happens while you're making other plans.

The Plumber's Mate Mysteries, Book 4

The last thing newly engaged plumber Tom Paretski needs is to stumble over another dead body. He's got enough on his mind already as the reality of his impending marriage sinks in. Not only is his family situation complicated, his heroism at a pub fire made him a local celebrity. Now everyone and their uncle wants a piece of his psychic talents.

Hired to find a missing necklace, Tom and his fiancé, private investigator Phil Morrison, wind up trying to unmask a killer-and there's no shortage of suspects, up to and including the local bishop himself.

As Tom and Phil try to uncover the truth, they find themselves pulled in all directions by the conflicting pressures of their families and their own desires. But the murderer they're up against is a ruthless schemer who won't hesitate to kill again. If Tom and Phil aren't careful, their love-and all their plans for the future-could be blown down like a house of straw.

Warning: Contains a bishop of questionable Christian charity, a necklace of questionable taste, and a plumber of questionable nationality who may be running out of time.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Lovers Leap by J.L. Merrow (180-07-21-2016)

Lovers Leap by J.L. Merrow
Bisexual Romantic Comedy
Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing (November 16, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1626493839
ISBN-13: 978-1626493834
Amazon: Lovers Leap
Amazon Kindle: Lovers Leap

If they looked, would they ever leap?

Good-looking, confident, and doted on by his widowed mum, Michael is used to thinking only of himself. Getting shoved off an Isle of Wight pier by an exasperated ex ought to come as a wake-up call—but then he meets Rufus and he’s right back to letting the little head take charge. Rufus is cute, keen, and gets under Michael’s skin in a disturbing way.

Would-be chef Rufus can’t believe his luck when a dripping wet dream of a man walks out of the sea on his birthday, especially when Michael ends up staying at the family B&B. Life is perfect—at least until Michael has to go home to the mainland.

Rufus can’t leave the island for reasons he’s entirely neglected to mention. And though Michael identifies as bi, breaking his mum’s heart by coming out and having an actual relationship with a guy has never been his plan. With both men determined to keep their secrets, a leap of faith could land them in deep water.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Out! by J.L. Merrow (179-07-21-2016)

Out! (The Shamwell Tales) by J.L. Merrow
Bisexual Romantic Comedy
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (January 19, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619233207
ISBN-13: 978-1619233201
Amazon: Out! (The Shamwell Tales)
Amazon Kindle: Out! (The Shamwell Tales)

When the costs are added up, will love land in the black? The Shamwell Tales, Book 3 Mark Nugent has spent his life in the closet-at least, the small part of it he hasn't spent in the office. Divorced when he could no longer deny his sexuality, he's sworn off his workaholic ways and moved to Shamwell with his headstrong teen daughter to give her a stable home environment. His resolve to put his love life on hold is severely tested when he joins a local organization and meets a lively yet intense young man who tempts him closer to the closet threshold. Patrick Owen is an out-and-proud charity worker with strong principles-and a newly discovered weakness for an older man. One snag: Mark is adamant he's not coming out to his daughter, and Patrick will be damned if he's going to start a relationship with a lie. Between Mark's old-fashioned attitudes and a camp, flirtatious ex-colleague who wants Mark for himself, Patrick wonders if they'll ever be on the same romantic page. And when Mark's former career as a tax advisor clashes with Patrick's social conscience, it could be the one stumbling block they can't get past. Warning: Contains historically inaccurate Spartan costumes, mangled movie quotes, dubious mathematical logic and a three-legged pub crawl.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: To Love a Traitor by J.L. Merrow (178-07-21-2016)

To Love a Traitor by J.L. Merrow
Gay Historical Romance
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (September 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619231506
ISBN-13: 978-1619231504
Amazon: To Love a Traitor
Amazon Kindle: To Love a Traitor

Wounds of the heart take the longest to heal. When solicitor's clerk George Johnson moves into a rented London room in the winter of 1920, it's with a secret goal: to find out if his fellow lodger, Matthew Connaught, is the wartime traitor who cost George's adored older brother his life. Yet as he gets to know Matthew-an irrepressibly cheerful ad man whose missing arm hasn't dimmed his smile-George begins to lose sight of his mission. As Matthew's advances become ever harder to resist, George tries to convince himself his brother's death was just the luck of the draw, and to forget he's hiding a secret of his own. His true identity-and an act of conscience that shamed his family. But as their mutual attraction grows, so does George's desperation to know the truth about what happened that day in Ypres. If only to prove Matthew innocent-even if it means losing the man he's come to love. Warning: Contains larks in the snow, stiff upper lips, shadows of the Great War, and one man working undercover while another tries to lure him under the covers.

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