The Quill Book Awards are sponsored by Publisher’s Weekly and NBC Universal Television Stations. The nominees for books published between July 1, 2006 and June 30th, 2007 were announced last week at BookExpo America (the national trade show for the book industry). The winners in 18 different categories will be announced on September 10th and the awards will be presented on October 22nd at a "gala ceremony" in New York City.  Winners will be determined by "a Voting Board consisting of more than 6,000 booksellers and librarians." I am pleased that The No Asshole Rule is one of the five finalists in the business book category.  The other four are:

Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Seth Godin; Portfolio

Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
Suze Orman; Random House/Spiegel & Grau

Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
David Shipley and Will Schwalbe; Alfred A. Knopf

Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough: Reinventing the Customer Experience
Jonathan M. Tisch, Karl Weber; John Wiley & Son

I am honored to be on this list of great books.  I would also add that, in my biased opinion, the best business book published during this period isn’t on the list: Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick.