Still struggling to gain a foothold with authors and the public, the Quill Awards announced Thursday a new process for nominating and selecting its prizes for best books of the year.
Created two years ago as a populist answer to the National Book Awards and Pulitzers, in which winners are selected by small committees, the Quills previously culled finalists from nominations by about 6,000 booksellers and librarians, then had the public vote to choose the winners in 19 categories. But the voting generated little interest, and many nominees didn't show up for the awards ceremony.
