You know, I think Tiger Eye has been nominated for the Quills Award. Wow. The awards show will be broadcast on NBC in October. At the moment, about 120 romances have been nominated by The Quills Nominating Board which is “comprised of approximately 6,000 invited booksellers and librarians” who established a consumer short list of books published in North America and marketed to the United States between August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005. Nominated books also had to meet one of the following criteria:
Starred reviews in Publishers Weekly
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program
BookSense Picks
Borders Original Voices
Bestseller lists from Publishers Weekly, Book Sense, Barnes & Noble, and Borders
I don’t know which one fits my book, but hey, I can live with the mystery. You can learn more about the Quills (and rest assured, I am trying to learn as much as possible, too) at their website: http://www.quillsliteracy.org/index.html