Thread: Amazon gives author an award then revokes it
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Old 12-08-2011, 07:19 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
Salon has an amusing article on an author named Alison Espach who in June was awarded the "Amazon Best Book of 2011 … So Far" award for her novel The Adults. Well, by the time the Holiday season arrived her novel couldn't hold up to the competition, so it is no longer an Amazon Best Book of 2011. The author was actually a pretty good sport about it, but I still feel for her. Read the article, it's pretty good.
Fame is fleeting and a fickle mistress or something like that.
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