{"id":2878,"date":"2006-08-19T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:40","slug":"porcupine-quills-more-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Porcupine Quills, more like&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, lest we forget:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for The Quills Awards! The newest in the pantheon of ruthlessly self-indulgent awards shows, it&#8217;s like the Academy Awards for books! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reedbusiness.com\/index.asp?layout=gbl_article&#038;articleid=CA6339337&amp;pubdisplay=RBI-US\" target=\"_blank\">Reed Business Information<\/a> and NBC last year created an industry-qualified \u201cconsumers choice\u201d awards program for books. &#8220;The Quills celebrates the best adult and children&#8217;s books of the year in 20 popular categories, including Book of the Year, plus an committee-selected award for best Book to Film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know you want to vote in this, so hurry on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillsvote.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Quills<\/a> between August 22 &#8211; September 30th to be sure Harry Potter is chosen once again as the most popular book of forever and ever in Young Adult\/Teen fiction, because, since this isn&#8217;t about content but <u>sales<\/u> (&#8220;The Quills celebrate excellence in writing <em>and publishing&#8221;<\/em>), and one of the Award show&#8217;s stated goals is to &#8220;Interest more <em>consumers<\/em> in <em>acquiring<\/em> books and reading,&#8221; that&#8217;s what&#8217;s likely going to happen for many, many years. The Nominees will be announced on the 22nd, and then <em>you<\/em> can place your vote in over <em>twenty categories!<\/em> <br \/>Aren&#8217;t award shows just fab?<\/p>\n<p>Fine, fine, taking my snarky self away from the keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, lest we forget: It&#8217;s time for The Quills Awards! The newest in the pantheon of ruthlessly self-indulgent awards shows, it&#8217;s like the Academy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}