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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Editing Life by Sandy Dugger

Editing Life by Sandy Dugger
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 342 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (December 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062799
ISBN-13: 978-1939062796
Amazon: Editing Life
Amazon Kindle: Editing Life

Bailey Hutsell ran from her best friend for fear of a broken heart. After ten years in the Navy, she returns to the home where she grew up. While attempting to acclimate to civilian life, she has to juggle a new job, her sister's health, a new group of friends, and the heartache of having to see her best friend start dating someone new. Shayla Horton has buried herself in her bookstore and the escape that her books provide. She didn't think she would survive when her best friend ditched their high school plans and joined the Navy. Now she has to deal with Bailey returning to her life. Her emotions are in turmoil; one moment, she wants to throttle her best friend, and in the next moment, she longs to pull her close and never let her go. A new woman helps her try to avoid those feelings. Can the women move forward with friendship? Will their attempt to write a new future allow them to withstand the trials life throws at them?

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Memoirs of the Happy Lesbian Housewife by Lorraine Howell

Memoirs of the Happy Lesbian Housewife by Lorraine Howell
Lesbian Biography / Memoir
Paperback: 246 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (October 10, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062691
ISBN-13: 978-1939062697
Amazon: Memoirs of the Happy Lesbian Housewife
Amazon Kindle: Memoirs of the Happy Lesbian Housewife

"A heartwarming reflection written with humor, wit and just the right amount of sarcasm, Lorraine Howell's fun and conversational style reels you in. Sit back and laugh as she shares what makes her "The Happy Lesbian Housewife." Jennie McNulty, Comedian, Co-host of LA Talk Radio show "Cathy is In, The Cathy DeBuono Show" and author of a weekly(ish) blog on Lesbian.com. With a partner named Sweetie, three grown children that are threatening to go into the witness protection program and a career as an adult entertainer, Lorraine Howell delivers a somber, no nonsense look at the difficulty of coming out late in life and how it has affected her poor, pitiful family...NOT! She really brings you a weight-loss book that guarantees that by simply reading her tome word for word, you will lose 25 pounds by the end. HA! Don't you wish? "Memoirs Of A Happy Lesbian Housewife - You Can't Make This Stuff Up. Seriously!" is truly a no-holds-barred, irreverent collection of stories looking at the late-blooming lesbian, Howell, and her hilarious take on life, love, friends, family and SEX! Nothing is off limits...Did we mention SEX? So hop on board and enjoy the ride. You will laugh and cry then laugh some more. Lorraine Howell's The Happy Lesbian Housewife, will not disappoint!

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Soiled – A Shannon Patrick Landscape Mystery by Lin Phillippi

Soiled – A Shannon Patrick Landscape Mystery by Lin Phillippi
Lesbian Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 278 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (March 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062837
ISBN-13: 978-1939062833
Amazon: Soiled – A Shannon Patrick Landscape Mystery
Amazon Kindle: Soiled – A Shannon Patrick Landscape Mystery

The debut of a remarkable new talent in lesbian mystery fiction in a suspenseful, fast paced, highly entertaining story you will not want to put down. Landscape designer Shannon Patrick lives in Palm Springs with her wife of many years, Karen, a collectibles dealer, and Mooch and Bailey, their two idiosyncratic cats. Shannon has intervened in previous predicaments that affected her friends, so when she arrives for a client appointment only to discover the massive door to the huge home wide open, broken glass and blood on the floor and her client nowhere to be found, long-suffering Karen knows she's in for it. Along her investigative way Shannon meets a mysterious beauty, witnesses strange events at the neighboring estate, uncovers a Native American artifact counterfeit scheme, encounters a stunning local police officer and her equally gorgeous wife, and in her spare time intervenes in a friend's highly risky gambling addiction. Amid escalating peril, she and the increasingly dismayed Karen find themselves locked in a storage unit run by the Bikers for Jesus motorcycle club-all of which leads to a climactic scene of Shannon fighting for her life with the aid of Karen and the inestimable feline talents of Mooch and Bailey. Don't miss, Soiled, first in a series featuring one of the most engaging sleuths you'll ever want to meet.

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Sharpshooter by Leslie Murray

Sharpshooter by Leslie Murray
Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 582 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (October 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062713
ISBN-13: 978-1939062710
Amazon: Sharpshooter
Amazon Kindle: Sharpshooter

A mission gone horribly wrong. A vicious killer who will stop at nothing. Two women on the run for their very lives. After 9/11, an experimental branch of the U.S. government has been tasked with the mission of proactively putting a stop to terrorism. They have sent a team to eliminate a financier responsible for funding the worst of these organizations. Everything is going according to plan. Until it's not. The team is ambushed, and when the mission is looking its darkest, it goes from bad to worse. Former Marine scout sniper Seven Michelis is a black ops sharpshooter now injured and on the run for her life. Peace Corps volunteer Dr. Jenny MacKenzie defies good sense and sets out to help a stranger in need. What she finds is something else entirely. From the rugged foothills of the Andes through the dense forests of the Amazon river basin, Seven and Jenny fight to survive the perils of being hunted through Bolivia by a killer hell bent on homicide. Who can they trust, and what fresh hell awaits them if and when they make it home? Will they survive long enough to explore their growing attraction?

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Good Water by Kayt Peck

Good Water by Kayt Peck
Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 194 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (April 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193906287X
ISBN-13: 978-1939062871
Amazon: Good Water
Amazon Kindle: Good Water

The dry plains drew Judy Proctor like a bear to her den...or a moth to the flame. Ranching was her life. The sweat as she branded or "doctored" cattle...the howl of a coyote in the quiet, night air ... half-frozen fingers as she cut the wire to loosen hay bales for hungry cattle scratching for survival in snow-covered land...all of the everyday existence on the ranch was her life. It was where she belonged. It was a lonely life. She had tried to leave the ranch to join the "normal" existence of a talented young woman in the city, but it had never been home. When her parents were killed in an automobile accident, she returned to the family ranch as much because she needed it as it needed her. She faced a lonely life to be shared with no better company than Somegood and Useless, her cow dog and the mottled mutt that were her companions. Kathleen Romero slipped into Judy's life unexpectedly. She came to the plains to write a story. Would she stay because of the real truth she found in the simple drama of husbanding land and animals? Unfortunately, even wide-open spaces can be plagued by prejudice and closed-minds. As the two women struggle to know each other, they must also carve a place for themselves among the country-folk who have been Judy's friends and neighbors her entire life.

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Undone by E.M. Hodge

Undone by E.M. Hodge
Lesbian Poetry
Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (November 15, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062772
ISBN-13: 978-1939062772
Amazon: Undone
Amazon Kindle: Undone

Undone is a love story told in verse. It is a journey of two women out of loneliness, to friendship, lust, love, and finally moving in together. Hopefully, you will experience these poems as instances of sensuous experience in words spoken aloud with a lover.

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Missing Mary by Cricket Watson

Missing Mary by Cricket Watson
Lesbian Young Adult
Paperback: 166 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (April 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062896
ISBN-13: 978-1939062895
Amazon: Missing Mary
Amazon Kindle: Missing Mary

One fateful evening in 1996, only child and latchkey kid 14-year old Brenna Bianco caves into peer pressure and blatantly ignores her parents request to remain home while they are out. Venturing on an apparently harmless neighborhood bike ride with her cousin Sara and their mutual friend Mary, Brenna wakes the next morning to realize Mary never returned home. When an overzealous police officer accuses Brenna of foul play, she must rely on her amateur police skills and ingenuity to redeem herself. On a personal level, Brenna is struggling with being an only child, her over-protective, work-a-holic parents, and her unwelcome, yet growing interest in members of her same sex. Who ever said being a teenager was easy?

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: To Love Again by B.L. Clark

To Love Again by B.L. Clark
Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 442 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (May 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062993
ISBN-13: 978-1939062994
Amazon: To Love Again
Amazon Kindle: To Love Again

Jade Donovan felt like she had everything in life, a great marriage, a beautiful daughter, and then fate intervened. Now she needs to learn how to move forward, not only for herself, but her four-year-old daughter. Jade's best friend Kristel hopes to help her get back on track by attending a grief counseling group run by Rachel Cassidy, a widow herself. With time, Jade is able to take the steps forward to heal and finds herself falling for Rachel. Not everybody is happy with the path that Jade has started on. Will Jade be able to overcome the loss of her wife and the other obstacles life has in store for her, to be able To Love Again?

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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Patrick Leahy & T. R. Knight

Theodore Raymond "T. R." Knight (born March 26, 1973) is an American actor known for his role as Dr. George O'Malley on the ABC's medical drama, Grey's Anatomy. Having acted on stage since the age of five, Knight has starred on Broadway, off-Broadway and theatre productions in his home state of Minnesota. He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in MCC Theater's Scattergood in 2003. On October 5, 2013, Knight married his boyfriend of three years, Patrick Leahy, in Hudson, New York.

Knight was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he became involved with the Guthrie Theater at the age of 5. He attended Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, for grades K-8. Knight received the Conners Foundation Scholarship as a freshman and apprenticed at the Children's Theatre Company. He also worked at the local Red Owl supermarket alongside his brother. After finishing high school at the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, Knight enrolled at the University of Minnesota for a brief period of time. He dropped out and soon landed leading roles at the Guthrie Theater.

Knight moved to New York City and appeared on the stage. He played opposite Patti LuPone in the 2001 Broadway revival of Noises Off. He performed in 2003 as Damis in Tartuffe. He performed in the 2003 Off-Broadway production of Scattergood, receiving a Drama Desk Award nomination as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. Knight also starred Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in the 2004 drama Boy.


T. R. Knight is an American actor known for his role as Dr. George O'Malley on the ABC's medical drama, Grey's Anatomy. Having acted on stage since the age of five, Knight has starred on Broadway, off-Broadway and theatre productions in his home state of Minnesota. He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in MCC Theater's Scattergood in 2003. In a relationship since 2010, on October 5, 2013, Knight married his boyfriend of three years, Patrick Leahy, in Hudson, New York.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._R._Knight

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Deception by Design by Tara Wentz

Deception by Design by Tara Wentz
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing (March 25, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939062918
ISBN-13: 978-1939062918
Amazon: Deception by Design
Amazon Kindle: Deception by Design

Photographer Joshlyn Davis moves through her life drawing as little attention as possible. She longs for the simple life with few complications and the less people know her the better. The long buried secrets have taken a toll, but everything is just how she wants it, or so she thought. Graphic/Software designer Kellen Reynolds lives her days substantiating her work from home business and her nights burning up the pavement at the local amateur race track. There really hadn't been much thought of a private life until a chance meeting with Joshlyn Davis. Almost immediately Kellen and Joshlyn find a connection and begin to slowly explore a relationship. Will the relationship have time to develop or will something dark and sinister put an end to it?

2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html

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