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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: All The Pretty Things by Rae D. Magdon & Michelle Magly

All The Pretty Things (Revised Edition) by Rae D. Magdon & Michelle Magly
Lesbian Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 222 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (April 30, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1511636076
ISBN-13: 978-1511636070
Amazon: All The Pretty Things (Revised Edition)
Amazon Kindle: All The Pretty Things (Revised Edition)

With the launch of her political campaign, the last thing Tess needed was a distraction. She had enough to deal with running as a Republican and a closeted lesbian. But when Special Agent Robin Hart from the FBI arrives in Cincinnati to investigate a corruption case, Tess finds herself spending more time than she should with the attractive woman. Things get a little more complicated when Robin begins to display signs of affection, and Tess fears her own outing might erupt in political scandal and sink all chances of pursuing her dreams.

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



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: The Witch's Daughter (Amendyr Series Book 3) by Rae D. Magdon

The Witch's Daughter (Amendyr Series Book 3) by Rae D. Magdon
Lesbian Fantasy
Series: Amendyr
Paperback: 206 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (April 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1508596956
ISBN-13: 978-1508596950
Amazon: The Witch's Daughter (Amendyr Series Book 3)
Amazon Kindle: The Witch's Daughter (Amendyr Series Book 3)

Ailynn Gothel has always been the perfect daughter. Thanks to her mother's teachings, she knows how to heal the sick, conjure the elements, and take care of Raisa, her closest and dearest friend. But when Ailynn's feelings for Raisa grow deeper, her simple life falls apart. Her mother hides Raisa deep in a cave to shield her from the world, and Ailynn must leave home in search of a spell to free her. While the kingdom beyond the forest is full of dangers, Ailynn’s greatest fear is that Raisa will no longer want her when she returns. She is a witch’s daughter, after all—and witches never get their happily ever after.

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



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Journey To You by A.J. Adaire

Journey To You by A.J. Adaire
Lesbian Sci-Fi / Futuristic
Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (August 26, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1516881761
ISBN-13: 978-1516881765
Amazon: Journey To You
Amazon Kindle: Journey To You

What do you do if you are one of the few who remain alive after a mysterious, flu-like virus claims most of the global population? This is a question Kim Robins and Peri Henderson have to answer when the world changes and society falls apart. Violent gangs of looters make it unsafe to remain in the city. Hoping to improve their chances for survival, Kim and Peri decide to hike into the remote forest area of Maine. Dangerous circumstances along the trail cause the women to join forces with another hiker and her dog. The longtime friends and their new companions set off on a daunting trek filled with both menacing and kindhearted survivors. With evidence of the illness everywhere they go, will this journey bring each of the women the happiness and safety she seeks?

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



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: It's Complicated by A.J. Adaire

It's Complicated by A.J. Adaire
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (October 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1501031791
ISBN-13: 978-1501031793
Amazon: It's Complicated
Amazon Kindle: It's Complicated

Victoria Brannigham had a guilty pleasure. Every day she would take a detour, sit on the boardwalk, and wait for the runner to show up. That’s where the guilt came in, knowing she would be elsewhere. Beverly McMannis was lonely. She was happy to become friends with her neighbor who lived across the street from her. It felt like they might be the only two lesbians on the island. Victoria was honest with Bev the first night they met, explaining that she wasn’t free. Bev promised that she could handle that and welcomed Victoria’s friendship. Love isn’t always easy...sometimes it’s complicated. Especially when it involves an odd situation where only one of the people in the relationship is aware of the promise to remain loyal to their commitment.

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: I Love My Life by A.J. Adaire

I Love My Life by A.J. Adaire
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (March 25, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1508583781
ISBN-13: 978-1508583783
Amazon: I Love My Life
Amazon Kindle: I Love My Life

Betrayal by her former partner sends Chris Baxter fleeing to Maine. To escape the monotony of staring at the four walls of her isolated cabin, she enrolls in a sailing class. A chance pairing with Stephanie Kincaid and her cohorts, Tina and Terry, offers an opportunity for new friendship. Their shared homework assignment might offer Chris the potential for more than just knowledge of navigation. An urgent message interrupts the classmates’ sailing vacation along the coast of Maine. While Chris rushes back to her twin’s bedside, the others remain onboard to sail back to their homeport. Will the revelations from her ex, her sister, and her family, change everything in the new life that Chris has rebuilt?

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Wylde About Her by Beth Wylde

Wylde About Her by Beth Wylde
Lesbian Anthology / Collection / Erotica
Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1514336944
ISBN-13: 978-1514336946
Amazon: Wylde About Her
Amazon Kindle: Wylde About Her

Beth is back with an all new collection of lesbian erotica. From mild to wild, there's something for everyone. Between these pages you'll find marriage proposals and blind dates. Hockey games and bachelorette parties. Motorcycle riding butches and femme girls on the prowl. Take a sneak peek inside a holiday shopping trip gone wrong. Venture inside a new GLBT BDSM club for opening night. Discover sex induced shape shifters and paramedics that can help you, no matter what the emergency is. The scenarios range from romantic to exotic. Sassy to sweltering. This collection proves Beth is Wylde About Her...erotica.

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: New Cuts, Old Wounds (Scarred 2) by S.L. Kassidy

New Cuts, Old Wounds (Scarred Series, Book 2) by S.L. Kassidy
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Series: Scarred
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 8, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1512143529
ISBN-13: 978-1512143522
Amazon: New Cuts, Old Wounds (Scarred Series, Book 2)
Amazon Kindle: New Cuts, Old Wounds (Scarred Series, Book 2)

In this sequel to Scarred for Life, Nicole Cardell and Dane Wolfe have been together for a year. They are doing their best to move forward with their relationship and open up to each other. It’s time to meet family members. Dane’s nervous about meeting Nicole’s family, but she’s even more nervous about Nicole meeting her family. Nicole is eager for both. Nicole thinks Dane should bond with her family while Dane thinks she needs to get as far away from them as possible. The Wolfe family seems to agree with Dane, but keep inviting her to things and Nicole keeps accepting the invites. Will family make or break Dane and Nicole?

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Without Your Courage by TJ Whittle

Without Your Courage by TJ Whittle
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (May 31, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1512144711
ISBN-13: 978-1512144710
Amazon: Without Your Courage
Amazon Kindle: Without Your Courage

What does courage look like to you? Is it a young girl facing an unwanted marriage? Does it echo the fears of a spouse exposing their secret? Is it the strength of a young woman protecting her unborn child? Perhaps it’s as simple as a first kiss. Without Your Courage takes us to Auckland, New Zealand and the surrounding countryside, to join the lives of four strong women. 1940s. Violet and Charlotte form a beautiful friendship while John’s away at war. What will happen when he returns? Present Day. An accident introduces Ella and Gemma, who struggle to define their new friendship across the barrier of age. Four women with their lives entwined. Will they find the love they seek?

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



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Back Swing by Jeanine Hoffman

Back Swing by Jeanine Hoffman
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: Yellow Rose by RCE (May 8, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619291363
ISBN-13: 978-1619291362
Amazon: Back Swing
Amazon Kindle: Back Swing

Riley Finney, the golf pro first introduced in the novel Strength in Numbers, has had an upsy-downsy life. By her senior year of high school she knows she must juggle her lesbianism with the need to keep silent to further the chance of following her golf dreams. When she joins the Nittany Lions college golf team, she falls in love for the first time. She later makes the pro tour but is betrayed and outed, sending resounding shockwaves through her world that threaten to affect her career plan. Will she tuck tail and run home to Pennsylvania? Or can she stand up to the challenges she faces in both love and professional golf?

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

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Elizabeth Reynard & Virginia Gildersleeve

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon (24 October 1869, India – 24 October 1942, Tucson, Arizona) was an English literary critic. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dresden and at King's College London and University College London. (P: Professor Caroline Spurgeon (1869–1942) by Alice Mary Burton (1893–1968), Goodenough College, Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 71.1 cm, Collection: Goodenough College)

Caroline Spurgeon is known as the first female university professor in London, the second in England. She was actually the first female professor involved in English literature, and the first fully accepted in England at all. From May 1900 she lectured on English Literature in London. She became a member of the staff of Bedford College, London, in 1901. She was an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and in 1911 wrote a thesis in Paris on Chaucer devant la critique, and in 1929 in London on 500 years of Chaucer criticism and allusion. In 1936 she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where she died, apparently on her 73rd birthday from undisclosed causes. Spurgeon, Virginia Gildersleeve, Meta Tuke, Lilian Clapham and others enjoyed interweaving intimate relationships and shared their summers (see - Our Story)

Smart networking in the British Federation of University Women and with female counterparts in the more progressive United States helped her gain leadership positions in the restructuring of English studies in Britain (e.g., the English Association) as well as in the launching of the English literature curriculum at the University of London. Through her various professional activities inside her own department, she participated in the academic literary-critical renaissance of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was also an active militant in favour of women’s eligibility to academic degrees. She advocated for more opportunities for foreign women in British Universities. Her own appointment to a chair's position marked a turning point in the history of women's higher education.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Spurgeon

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (October 3, 1877 – July 7, 1965) was an American academic, the long-time Dean of Barnard College, and the sole female US delegate to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization, which negotiated the UN Charter and created the United Nations. For several decades, she lived with companion Professor Caroline Spurgeon. Spurgeon died in 1942. Later Gildersleeve lived with Barnard English Professor Elizabeth Reynard (1897-1962).

Gildersleeve was born in New York City, she attended the Brearley School and following her graduation in 1895 went on to attend Barnard College, a member of the Seven Sisters affiliated with Columbia University. She completed her studies in 1899 and received a fellowship to undertake research for her MA in medieval history at Columbia University. She taught English part-time at Barnard for several years. She declined a full-time position and took a leave of absence to undertake her Ph.D. in English and comparative literature at Columbia for three years. When she completed her studies in 1908 she was appointed a lecturer in English in 1908 by Barnard and Columbia; by 1910 she had become an assistant professor and in 1911 was made dean of Barnard College.

In 1918 Gildersleeve, Caroline Spurgeon and Rose Sidgwick met while the two English women were on an academic exchange to the United States. They discussed founding an international association of university women, and in 1919 founded the International Federation of University Women. Gildersleeve shared an "intimate" relationship with the British Spurgeon, with whom she annually shared a rental summer home.


Elizabeth Reynard (1897-1962) & Virginia Gildersleeve (October 3, 1877 – July 7, 1965) are buried together at Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard, Bedford, New York.
Virginia Gildersleeve was an American academic, the long-time Dean of Barnard College, and the sole female US delegate to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization, which negotiated the UN Charter and created the United Nations. Gildersleeve never identified herself as a lesbian, preferring instead the adjective "celibate." For several decades, she lived with companion Professor Caroline Spurgeon. Spurgeon died in 1942. Later Gildersleeve lived with Barnard English Professor Elizabeth Reynard.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Gildersleeve


Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time by Elisa Rolle
Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1500563323
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/4910282
Amazon (Paperback): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?tag=elimyrevandra-20
Amazon (Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?tag=elimyrevandra-20

Days of Love chronicles more than 700 LGBT couples throughout history, spanning 2000 years from Alexander the Great to the most recent winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how they met and fell in love, as well as photos from when they married or of their families. Included are professional portraits by Robert Giard and Stathis Orphanos, paintings by John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini, and photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Arnold Genthe, and Carl Van Vechten among others. “It's wonderful. Laying it out chronologically is inspired, offering a solid GLBT history. I kept learning things. I love the decision to include couples broken by death. It makes clear how important love is, as well as showing what people have been through. The layout and photos look terrific.” Christopher Bram “I couldn’t resist clicking through every page. I never realized the scope of the book would cover centuries! I know that it will be hugely validating to young, newly-emerging LGBT kids and be reassured that they really can have a secure, respected place in the world as their futures unfold.” Howard Cruse “This international history-and-photo book, featuring 100s of detailed bios of some of the most forward-moving gay persons in history, is sure to be one of those bestsellers that gay folk will enjoy for years to come as reference and research that is filled with facts and fun.” Jack Fritscher


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