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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: We Came Alive in '75 by Pat Deihl

We Came Alive in '75 by Pat Deihl
Lesbian Biography / Memoir
Paperback: 164 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (February 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562503
ISBN-13: 978-1939562500
Amazon: We Came Alive in '75
Amazon Kindle: We Came Alive in '75

The touching, often humorous memoir of two loving soul mates who lived together for 36 years on this earth. Mary Lee and Pat's saga of spiritual growth and transformation continues even beyond Mary Lee's untimely death in 2010, as she continues to interact remarkably from "the other side," providing Pat with new hope, joy and eternal love.

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



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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: The Duchess of Manusk by Jordan Falconer

The Duchess of Manusk by Jordan Falconer
Lesbian Fantasy
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (February 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562902
ISBN-13: 978-1939562906
Amazon: The Duchess of Manusk
Amazon Kindle: The Duchess of Manusk

When Elizabeth St John is asked by her father, King Vincent, to govern the duchy of Manusk, she knows she's not in for an easy time. It's a dark place ridden with corruption and thieves holding the honest people at ransom. What she doesn't expect is to find an unmanned trader tied up at the docks and ship-wreck survivors on the beach. To make matters worse, neither one are from the King's Heartland's duchies. Who is the young maiden the survivors are protecting? Why is the ship in the harbor and where are her sailors? Elizabeth struggles to find answers to these questions as the threat of war with marauding, neighboring armies looms ever larger and her fate is left in the hands of the mysterious maiden.

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Rabbits of the Apocalypse by Benny Lawrence

Rabbits of the Apocalypse by Benny Lawrence
Lesbian Sci-Fi / Futuristic
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (December 24, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562740
ISBN-13: 978-1939562746
Amazon: Rabbits of the Apocalypse
Amazon Kindle: Rabbits of the Apocalypse

Rabbits of the Apocalypse is set in a not-too-distant future plagued with drought, human trafficking, rabid religious groups, and people who completely lack a sense of humor. What with all the hunger, chaos, sunstroke, landmines, and radiation it's hard to get by, and harder still to get laid. In the remote desert town of Lafontaine, Casey Prentice has been trying to survive the endtimes by keeping her head down and refusing to give a damn about anyone except her younger sister Emily and wingman Malice Hiroyama. But that ceases to be an option when a powerful and mysterious entity known as the Anastasian League descends on the town. Casey offers shelter to genius Pax, who is trying to escape the League. In doing so, she invites a whole new kind of danger into her life on top of a budding romance. The town of Lafontaine has a secret . . . and if the League discovers it, then the apocalypse will be the least of Casey's worries.

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Deliver Us From Evil by Barrett

Deliver Us From Evil (The Damaged Series Book 4) by Barrett
Lesbian Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (July 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562961
ISBN-13: 978-1939562968
Amazon: Deliver Us From Evil (The Damaged Series Book 4)
Amazon Kindle: Deliver Us From Evil (The Damaged Series Book 4)

Five months into her new job at the Albuquerque Field office in New Mexico, Zeke is offered a plum assignment to protect the Secretary of Commerce . A close call while on duty triggers a panic attack, which, if reported to her superiors could end her career. The Secretary of Commerce gives Zeke an unexpected guiding hand and an ultimatum about getting the help she needs. She chooses equine therapy, despite her uncertainty toward Anne's horses. Anne Reynolds struggles with a growing frustration with her job and a fear that she may have inherited her late mother's problem with drinking. Keeping her sobriety is difficult enough with Zeke's support, but Zeke away on assignment and her stay at the equine therapy facility adds to the challenge. Zeke and Anne are determined to overcome their personal obstacles and take the steps to find that common ground on which to build a life together.

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

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GRL: M.J. O'Shea

Starting from June 1, 2015, I will daily feature authors attending the three conventions I will join, Euro Pride in Munich (July), UK Meet in Bristol (September) and GRL in San Diego (October).

For the GRL in San Diego, October 15-18, 2015, today author is M.J. O'Shea: M.J. O'Shea has been writing romance since algebra class in sixth grade (when most of her stories starred her and Leonardo DiCaprio). When she's not writing, she loves listening to nearly all types of music, painting, reading great authors, and on those elusive sunny days in the Pacific Northwest, she loves driving on the freeway with her windows rolled down and her stereo on high.

Further Readings:

Dark Sun (New Seattle Book 1) by M.J. O'Shea
Publisher: M.J. O'Shea; 2 edition (July 26, 2015)
Amazon Kindle: Dark Sun (New Seattle Book 1)

Lynx is the spoiled sheltered son of the Dragon Triad, a crime family that rules over futuristic New Seattle. When he gets separated from his cousins during an adventure in the seediest part of town, he meets the man of his dreams in a bar owned by the Phoenix Triad, his family’s bitter rivals. After a night spent in passion, his mysterious lover disappears and Lynx fears he’ll never find him again.

Orion has a secret. On the surface he’s the perfect son, a society prince, heir to the Phoenix Triad’s corporate throne. But in his other life he’s known as Katana — thief, hacker, hero who steals from the triads to help the poor citizens of Bottom City. Orion knows the pretty Dragon he met in the bar that night is trouble, but he can’t forget the passion they shared.

When the opportunity arises, Orion captures his pretty Dragon and takes him on an adventure he’ll never forget. Will their love match survive the revelation of their true identities and the heat of their families’ feud?



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Alex & Hans M. Hirschi

Hans Martin Hirschi (born June 4, 1967) is a Swiss born Talent Development executive, writer and LGBT activist and the author of six published novels and a couple of non-fiction titles. Hirschi debuted as a fictional author in 2013 with Family Ties, an autobiographically inspired novel about the meaning of family. His books deal with humankind’s small and big challenges from parenting, loss, family, racism to climate change with strong LGBT characters. He’s been dubbed the “Queen of Unconventional Happy Endings” by his publisher.

Hans sixth novel, Spanish Bay, is due in October 10, 2015, a novel about disabilities, love, family, and raising children you didn’t expect.

Jim-Alex (Alex) Daniel Minorsson Hirschi (born February 28, 1979), is a Swedish social work executive and the chairman of the Swedish Association of Social Work. He currently works in an administrative management function in the city of Gothenburg.

Alex and Hans met on 9/11 and had what must be one of the most memorable first dates, ever, spending the entire night glued on a couch in front of the TV, watching events unfold. This extraordinary experience helped them bond quickly and they’ve been a couple ever since. They got engaged the next summer and married each other on December 11, 2004.

As the fathers of a son born to a surrogate in India in 2013, Hans and his husband documented their journey to parenthood in the 2014 e-book “Dads” and have been very vocal in their support for commercial surrogacy under controlled forms as part of their endeavor to help gay couples become fathers. Even after two and a half years, they are fighting to get Sascha registered as Swiss citizen, a routine procedure for straight couples.


Alex and Hans met on 9/11 and had what must be one of the most memorable first dates, ever, spending the entire night glued on a couch in front of the TV, watching events unfold. This extraordinary experience helped them bond quickly and they’ve been a couple ever since. They got engaged the next summer and married each other on December 11, 2004. As the fathers of a son born to a surrogate in India in 2013, Hans and his husband documented their journey to parenthood in the 2014 e-book “Dads”.

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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_M._Hirschi


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Mary Oliver & Molly Malone Cook

Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) and Molly Malone Cook (1925–2005) were together from 1959 to 2005. (P: Mary Oliver in 1964 (Photograph: Molly Malone Cook))

Mary Oliver is one of our era’s most beloved and prolific poets — a sage of wisdom on the craft of poetry and a master of its magic; a woman as unafraid to be witty as she is to wise. For more than forty years, Oliver lived on Cape Cod with the love of her life, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook — one of the first staff photographers for The Village Voice, with subjects like Walker Evans and Eleanor Roosevelt, and a visionary gallerist who opened the first photography gallery on the East Coast, exhibited such icons as Ansel Adams and Berenice Abbott, and recognized rising talent like William Clift. (She was also, living up to her reputation as “a great Bohemian American,” the owner of a bookshop frequented by Norman Mailer and occasionally staffed by the filmmaker John Waters.)

When Cook died in 2005 at the age of eighty, Oliver looked for a light, however faint, to shine through the thickness of bereavement. She spent a year making her way through thousands of her spouse’s photographs and unprinted negatives, mostly from around the time they met, which Oliver then enveloped in her own reflections to bring to life Our World (public library) — part memoir, part deeply moving eulogy to a departed soul mate, part celebration of their love for one another through their individual creative loves. Embraced in Oliver’s poetry and prose, Cook’s photographs reveal the intimate thread that brought these two extraordinary women together — a shared sense of deep aliveness and attention to the world, a devotion to making life’s invisibles visible, and above all a profound kindness to everything that exists, within and without.


Mary Oliver (b. 1935, right) with Molly Malone Cook (1925–2005) at the couple's home in Provincetown, Massachusetts
Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook were together from 1959 to 2005. For more than forty years, Oliver lived on Cape Cod with the love of her life, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook — one of the first staff photographers for The Village Voice. When Cook died in 2005 at the age of eighty, Oliver looked for a light, however faint, to shine through the thickness of bereavement. She spent a year making her way through thousands of her spouse’s photographs and unprinted negatives which Oliver then enveloped in her own reflections to bring to life Our World.

Source: www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/20/mary-oliver-molly-malone-cook-our-world/

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Blind Trust by Jody Klaire

Blind Trust (The Above and Beyond Series Book 2) by Jody Klaire
Lesbian Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (June 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562384
ISBN-13: 978-1939562388
Amazon: Blind Trust (The Above and Beyond Series Book 2)
Amazon Kindle: Blind Trust (The Above and Beyond Series Book 2)

After six grueling months in CIG's boot camp, Aeron Lorelei is looking forward to spending some vacation time with her friend Commander Renee Black in Colorado. When mother nature puts an avalanche in their path, they're stranded in a small mountain town. While walking downtown, Renee shoots a man for no apparent reason, and Aeron has until the roads are cleared to prove that Renee had justification for the shooting. During her investigation, Aeron is forced to use the burdens she loathes and hopes they're strong enough to vindicate Renee before the authorities arrive.

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: The Surrender by Terias McKlay

The Surrender (Guardian Book 1) by Terias McKlay
Lesbian Mystery / Thriller
Paperback: 254 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (December 19, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562643
ISBN-13: 978-1939562647
Amazon: The Surrender (Guardian Book 1)
Amazon Kindle: The Surrender (Guardian Book 1)

Mariska Cooper is a twenty-two year old student/waitress by day, feared vigilante by night. She and her best friend, Lucas Forsythe, lead the Guardian team, a ragtag group who battle the thriving criminal community in Toronto, Canada. Mariska, grieving the loss of her teammate and love of her life Lisa, throws herself into her work and focuses her mission on keeping the city safe. Alana Pierce, a savvy businesswoman in a high powered oil company, pulls Mariska from her self-imposed exile and brings light back into Mariska's life. But Alana holds secrets of her own that can endangered them both.

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

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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: When It Raynes by C.D. Cain

When It Raynes (Chambers of the Heart Book 1) by C.D. Cain
Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company (June 25, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939562945
ISBN-13: 978-1939562944
Amazon: When It Raynes (Chambers of the Heart Book 1)
Amazon Kindle: When It Raynes (Chambers of the Heart Book 1)

Rayne Amber Storm finds her serenity on the waters of her Louisiana bayou, where she can let her thoughts be her own among the moss-covered cypress trees. Slowly, a gentle, insistent ripple of difference stirs within her. A ripple that leads her away from her mother's Southern Baptist values to thoughts that betray the very core of what she believes is right and wrong. She leaves the protection of the bayou for medical school and lets the ripple grow until she is knocked unsteady by a powerful wave in the charismatic Samantha LeJeune. But when tragedy strikes back home, the pull of cross currents traps Rayne in what seems an insurmountable struggle between her heart, which now knows the true meaning of happiness, and doing what she has been taught all her life. Is she strong enough to keep navigating through unfamiliar but thrilling waters or will she give in and paddle down the path of least resistance?

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



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