LAUREN MYRACLE DID THE ETHICAL THING

"This year’s National Book Awards have become a story of embarrassment a month before the winners are to be announced.

Within just a few days, children’s author Lauren Myracle has been a nominee, a non-nominee, a nominee again and, finally, a non-nominee, asked to withdraw over mistakes not her own.
Myracle’s “Shine’’ was on the original list of five finalists announced last Wednesday for the young people’s literature category. But the National Book Foundation, which sponsors the prizes, cited a “miscommunication’’ with the judges and quickly said that her book had been confused with Franny Billingsley’s “Chime.’’ (To avoid advanced word leaking on the Internet, judges inform the foundation by telephone of their choices)."

Linking to this article by Hillel Italie - AP National Writer, one of many articles and reports (I first heard of this on the radio.) Some reports suggested that the American Book Awards people had not suggested she withdrawl, but because it was their mistake, had proposed both books and authors.

Lauren Myracle did the right thing in withdrawling without a fuss.