Please DU the Quill Book Awards (vote for "An Inconvenient Truth")

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-quick23.4aug23,0,7712294.story?coll=cl-books-utility-right

Doctorow, Gore are up for Quills

E.L. Doctorow, Stephen King and former presidential candidate Al Gore are among the nominees this year for the Quills, a book prize that aims to bring some Oscar-style glitz to publishing.

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Gore was nominated in the history/current events/politics category for his environmental book "An Inconvenient Truth," and King garnered a nomination in the science fiction/fantasy/horror category for his thriller "Cell."

The Quills, now in their second year, are hoping to challenge the more staid National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes, which have tended toward works with strong literary merit but sometimes little public recognition.

The nominees were chosen by 6,000 booksellers and librarians from among English-language books marketed to the United States in the year to June 30, 2006.

The awards will be presented Oct. 10 and the ceremony will be broadcast by NBC stations Oct. 28.

(more... but not much)

Vote for "An Inconvenient Truth" here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13737585/

[Kutjara]

1. Typical left wing publishing industry bias.

No sign of Ann Coulter's book, and it was published well before the 30 June deadline. How can such a seminal work have been ignored by the prize committee? Bias, that's how. I'm disgusted. Ann's just not being allowed to win the prizes she should win. I'll bet the Jersey Girls are behind this. Or the Dixie Chicks.

[AlGore-08.com]

2. Kick

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