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The latest scandal in the world of publishing: NBA asks Lauren Myracle to withdraw her book. Rebekah Send a noteboard - 17/10/2011 07:24:12 PM
Basically, the awards committee made a fubar over the phone, and the person taking notes on the shortlist of nominations misheard Chime as Shine. This error was "corrected" by having a shortlist of 6 instead of 5 books, which all sounds fine.

However, the awards chairman has since asked the author of Shine to withdraw her book from the competition "to preserve the integrity of the awards". What? How on earth does that make anything better?

Apparently the author is being all kinds of amazingly classy about this, but naturally Twitter and the blogosphere are up in arms.

I'm linking you to a blog by Libba Bray, because I found it interesting and think you might too.
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The latest scandal in the world of publishing: NBA asks Lauren Myracle to withdraw her book. Rebekah - 17/10/2011 07:24:12 PM 1330 Views
That does sound like quite an extraordinary screw-up. Camilla - 17/10/2011 07:33:56 PM 978 Views
The book obviously wouldn't have been on the list. Cut it, don't apologize, tell people to fuck off Tom - 17/10/2011 08:11:15 PM 900 Views
The quote from the blogger's father is all kinds of awesome. Legolas - 17/10/2011 10:26:52 PM 1164 Views
In fact I'm now far more tempted to read her books than Lauren Myracle's... Legolas - 17/10/2011 11:02:50 PM 1058 Views
the quote is from the book Cheaper by the Dozen The Wandering Gambler - 18/10/2011 03:44:32 AM 984 Views
Wow, that's a great quote. I'm afraid I'm going to have to steal it now. *NM* Praziquantel - 18/10/2011 07:40:34 AM 452 Views
Yeah, I was confused that the NBA was focusing on a book and not on... itself. Gher - 18/10/2011 06:24:41 PM 1107 Views
the first fuck up was the mix up, the second was not to immediately apologise to the the author, but Foxhead - 18/10/2011 01:27:52 PM 1115 Views
I'm with Tom on this. Stephen - 18/10/2011 01:47:49 PM 904 Views
That's a big FU, but she didn't do the right thing either... DomA - 18/10/2011 02:23:38 PM 887 Views
That makes no sense. Why should she withdraw her book? Legolas - 18/10/2011 07:03:23 PM 1023 Views
Side question- Are these awards publicly voted for, or is it some commmitee who makes the choice? Stephen - 18/10/2011 02:30:49 PM 881 Views
It's a juried award Larry - 19/10/2011 04:07:07 AM 941 Views
Like Legolas, I was thinking of the less well known NBA. Joel - 18/10/2011 04:08:18 PM 1183 Views
I think her reply should go something like this. MightyYT - 18/10/2011 08:03:23 PM 1063 Views
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