• Price: No longer in print. Used copies only, if available.
• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (May 15, 2011)
• Printer: Kindle Direct Publishing
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461082617
• ISBN-13: 978-1461082617
• Dimensions: 5" × 8"

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northeast coast of Japan, which triggered a devastating tsunami. To date over 12,500 people are reported dead and over 15,000 are still missing. The quake also crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Power Plant, which added further to the grief, fears and danger visited upon the Japanese people - a crisis that is still ongoing.

Inspired by an unusually bright rainbow that occurred on Barbados simultaneous to the earthquake, the title Rainbow Lights Ablaze is intended to inspire hope as focus on the disaster shifts from survival to recovery and rebuilding. All profits from the sale of this book are in aid of charity and will go towards helping survivors rebuild their lives through this humanitarian effort.

This book contains poems, short stories, essays, motivational pieces, and excerpts from novels. Photographs of Japanese cityscapes, landscapes, and religious architecture highlight the works.

Sixteen global writers and poets reside in such diverse locations as Australia, Barbados, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA. For most, their common ground is the Internet, where they interact as writers critiquing one another's work or exchanging poems in conversation on a thread. Other friends responded to the call for submittals within days of the earthquake and production of the book took less than a month to achieve, as enthusiasm ran high.

Authors include Quenntis Ashby, Debbie Bishop, Margaret Callow, Althea Charles, David Helsten, William Holt, Polly Johnson, Neville Legall, Zan McDowell, Lynne McLean, Mary Linda Miller, BL Milner, Paul Schoaff, Marek Stefanwicz, Ashen Venema, and Kenneth Wayne.