Oct 122006
The Nobel for literature goes to Orhan Pamuk (via The Millions).
The National Book Award finalists have been announced. Is this the first year that a nominee has a myspace page?
So you hate the Quill Awards. The Quills don’t hate you. Look at the love given — in the form of the best debut author award — to blogger Julie Powell, for her book Julie and Julia.
[...] Tod Goldberg tries out MySpace. And Carolyn observes that this is the first year that the National Book Awards has a nominee with a MySpace page. [...]
Also Amazon announced its first novel award.
http://sandstormauthor.blogspot.com/2006/10/first-novel-award-for-three-day-road.html#links