Everybody,
This is the
only one I'm aware of, and it's not always
"Hardboiled."
Best,
Jerry
Subject:
[MacGuffinResearch]
Re: Lefty Award
Date:
Thu,
15 Nov 2001 04:30:14 -0000
From:
"Jan
Long" <
janice.long@caltech.edu> Reply-To:
MacGuffinResearch@yahoogroups.com
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MacGuffinResearch@yahoogroups.com
--- In MacGuffinResearch@y..., Sharon Villines
<sharon@s...> wrote:
> Does anyone know the nominees and winner for the
2001 Lefty Award?
Sharon,
They didn't give out the Lefty this year. In the past, the
committee has contacted those registered to submit nominees,
then at a certain point, the top five are announced far
enough in advance that there's time to read them if you
haven't already. This year, as the time of the conference
drew near and I still hadn't heard anything, I e-mailed them
to find out what was going on. Here was the response I
got:
> no, we're not giving the lefties this year. instead,
we decided to
offer
> the authors something special and unique: the
authors to the bush
> program, so they could get out of anchorage and
really experience
alaska
> while they're here. judging from the enthusiastic
response, it was
a
> good idea; about half the authors who are coming
will also be going
out
> of town -- some of them very FAR out of town -- to
talk in rural
> schools, libraries and wherever else they're
wanted.
>
> i realize that not everyone will be happy with the
dearth of
lefties,
> but as i said, we wanted to do something
unique.
She was right - a LOT of people were not pleased about it.
The Authors to the Bush program was for the authors only,
which was a far cry from everyone who attends LCC being able
to vote for the Lefty. Enough people were angry about it that
I heard a rumor that the by-laws were being updated to
require presentation of the Lefty at future Left Coast
Crimes. If anyone knows whether or not this is true, I'd love
to know.
Sorry this was so lengthy!
Jan
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