Not to take anything away from the other two books, and I shouldn't have to point this out, but No.2 is not a novel, it is an anthology, and it contains mainly gay male content rather than being all lesbian or even predominantly lesbian. On these fundamental points, I'm of the view that this award misses the point and is therefore, sadly, irrelevant.
Everyone has the right to have an opinion. I'm a Gay Novel reviewer but I asked, almost begged, people (authors, readers, publishers) to submit every genres of the LGBT spectrum. If the L component was not so active as the G, well, maybe you should make your (as L reader I suppose) own mea culpa. Did you submit books? I didn't ask anything if not give me a title, I did all the work related to contact the publishers and provide the judge with books. I even bought books that I will probably not read, since they are not my genre, to provide it to the judges. Instead of come here and said that what I did was irrilevant, next time, please, be more active yourself. Then you will be entitled to come here and said that what I did was irrilevant.
And BTW the Lesbian part of that anthology is from very good authors, I would not badmouth them.
First I accepted submission, and Queer Wolf was submitted in the Lesbian category, and in the Gay category for that matter, in the first phase it was possible to have multiple submission cross categories. The Lesbian category had enough title (at least as overall category) to have is own category, and I specifically gave the title to read to judge who specifically asked for Lesbian titles. I did it, and the judges asked for it, to have a good and well thought ratings. Yes, it's true, I'm sure that out there there are better ONLY Lesbian titles, and I hope next time to reach them. But if we don't start from a point, we don't start at all. I don't think it would be fair for the authors involved to have the category suppressed, I prefer to have the category in a small spotlight hoping for next year to be centre stage.
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And BTW the Lesbian part of that anthology is from very good authors, I would not badmouth them.
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