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2012 Rainbow Awards

Category Winners

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Ink (Anne Cain)

Dark Soul 1 (Jordan Taylor)

Dragon Tamer (Shobana Appavu) / Speechless (Anne Cain)

Gay Contemporary General Fiction

Wayne Hoffman - Sweet Like Sugar

Ken O'Neill - The Marrying Kind

Lewis DeSimone - The Heart’s History / Brandon Shire - Listening To Dust

Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction

sbr martin – pig

Ann McMan – Sidecar

Q. Kelly – Waiting

Bisexual / Transgender Romance/Erotic Romance

Giselle Renarde - The Red Satin Collection / Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - Le Jazz Hot

Aleksandr Voinov & Amy Lane - Country Mouse

Darcy Abriel – Silver

The Bobby Michaels Award for Gay Erotic Romance

Abigail Roux - Stars and Stripes

L.A. Witt - Where There's Smoke

Freddy MacKay – Incubation

Lesbian Erotic Romance

Meghan O'Brien - The Night Off

Rebekah Weatherspoon - The Fling

L.T. Marie - Three Days

LGBT Erotica

J.P. Beausejour - Buccaneer Island

Rachel Haimowitz & Cat Grant - Power Play Awakening / Jerry L. Wheeler - Riding the Rails

Jeff Mann - Desire and Devour

Gay Historical

Jeff Mann – Purgatory

Charlie Cochrane - Home Fires Burning

KevaD - Whistle Pass

Lesbian Historical

Justine Saracen - Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright

Rebecca Buck - The Locket and the Flinklock

Paul Alan Fahey - The View from 16 Podwale Street

Gay Mystery / Thriller

Elliott Mackle - Only Make Believe

Drake Braxton – Missing

Scott Sherman - Second You Sin

Lesbian Mystery / Thriller

J.M. Redmann - Ill Will

A.C. Henley - McKee, Unabridged

Trin Denise - She Left Me Breathless

Bisexual/Transgender Contemporary General Fiction/Historical/Paranormal

Beth Burnett - Man Enough

Lauren Gallagher - Who's Your Daddy

J.M. Snyder - A Cowboy's Heart / Vincent Meis - Tio Jorge

LGBT Non Fiction

Thomas Keith - Love Christopher Street

Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray - Fur, The Love of Hair

Johnny Townsend - Let the Faggots Burn

LGBT Biographies/Memoirs

Dirk Vanden - It Was Too Soon Before

Jack Scott - Perking the Pansies

Greg Hogben - The British Devil / Red Haircrow - Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World

Gay Paranormal/Horror

Andrea Speed - Infected, Freefall / Vaughn R. Demont - Coyote's Creed

William Holden - Words to Die By

Kate McMurray - Across the East River Bridge / J.L. Merrow - Midnight in Berlin

Lesbian Paranormal/Horror

Catt Kingsgrave - One Saved to the Sea

Radclyffe & Stacia Seaman - Women of the Dark Streets / Rebekah Weatherspoon - Better Off Red

Cate Culpepper - A Question of Ghosts / Nell Stark & Trinity Tam – Sunfall

The William Neale Award for Gay Romance

Amy Lane – Sidecar

Jeremy Pack - To Touch the Stars

Rick R. Reed – Caregiver / J.L. Merrow - Hard Tail / A.B. Gayle - Red+Blue

Lesbian Romance

Ronica Black – Wholehearted

Gun Brooke - Speed Demons

Rachel Spangler – LoveLife

Bisexual / Transgender Sci-fi/Fantasy

Aleksandr Voinov – Incursion

Michelle Moore & Reesa Herberth - The Slipstream Con

Rae Gee - Mars on the Rise / Belinda McBride - The Bacchi

Gay Sci-fi/Fantasy

Marie Sexton - Blind Space

Cari Z. - Changing Worlds

Chris Quinton – Paradox

Lesbian Sci-fi/Fantasy

Erica Lawson – Soulwalker

Gun Brooke - Pirate's Fortune

Q. Kelly – Third

LGBT Young Adult/Coming of Age

Hayden Thorne - Renfred's Masquerade

K.Z. Snow - The Zero Knot

Jeff Erno - Another Dumb Jock

Best Bisexual / Transgender Debut

Luke Hartwell - Atom Heart John Beloved / Michelle Moore & Reesa Herberth - The Slipstream Con

Beth Burnett - Man Enough

Rae Gee - Mars on the Rise

Best Gay Debut

Ken O'Neill - The Marrying Kind

Jack Scott - Perking the Pansies

J.H. Trumble - Don't Let Me Go

Best Lesbian Debut

Rebekah Weatherspoon - Better Off Red

Robin Silverman - Lemon Reef

Yvonne Heidt - Sometime Yesterday / Kathleen Knowles - Awake Unto Me

Best Bisexual / Transgender Novel

Aleksandr Voinov – Incursion

Luke Hartwell - Atom Heart John Beloved / Michelle Moore & Reesa Herberth - The Slipstream Con

Giselle Renarde - The Red Satin Collection / Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid - Le Jazz Hot

Best Gay Novel

Wayne Hoffman - Sweet Like Sugar

Amy Lane – Sidecar

Jeremy Pack - To Touch the Stars / Dirk Vanden - It Was Too Soon Before

Best Lesbian Novel

Ronica Black – Wholehearted

J.M. Redmann - Ill Will

A.C. Henley - McKee, Unabridged

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