Oscars Schmoscars...It's ALA Season

Yeah, yeah Hollywood, glamour, and red carpets is what January through February is all about as the Globes, SAG Awards and Oscars take front and center.

It's very easy for a writer to become quite bitter. Yes, yes we chose the solitary work of storytelling. And you know going in that it's all very behind the scenes. Still, what does it take for for us to get a little E! action?

ALA to the rescue.

It's not glitzy. And if there were a red carpet the announcers would proably spend a lot of time wondering which author was who, unless of course they used librarians as the Red Carpet Commentators.

Hmm...not a bad idea.

Thing is, I'll never win an Oscar (for certain). The ALA awards are all I've/us writers got and that's hypothetically speaking for many of us.

So...the envelope please.

CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD
COPPER SUN
MOSES (Illustrator winner)


JOHN STEPTOE NEW TALENT AWARD
STANDING AGAINST THE WIND

PRINTZ AWARD

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE

CALDECOTT AWARD

FLOTSAM

NEWBERY AWARD

HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY

No author writes a book with the primary goal of getting an ALA award. Just as I suspect few actors act simply for an Oscar and few musicians sing, just to get a Grammy. But doesn't it do your heart good to know that every year there's a group of people squirrled away in a small room, ordering take out and bickering over the merits of your literary prowess?

It's the American way.

Kind of gets ya' right where you live...the ol' ego.

Write on.