Talk:William C. Pack

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According to, the originators of the "Best Book Awards", it costs $69 to enter and is specifically designed to garner publicity for the authors, rather than to reward any apparent merit of the books. I can't accept this as being a reliable source, since it's so much like self-publishing (which attracts no notability) and I can't see any other realistic sources of notability here although the two citations to public radio may add notability (altered after looking at more links). Accounting4Taste: talk 22:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * And being entered for a Pulitzer Prize is open to any book published in the U.S., according to their website, so that doesn't seem to lend any notability either. Accounting4Taste: talk 23:20, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

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I've removed the A7 speedy deletion tag as notability was unambiguously asserted, even if the article may not survive any subsequent deletion discussion. Steve T • C 23:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

To be fair, perhaps no notable literary contest can be entered without paying a fee - not the Pulitzer, not the Newberry, not the Nobel, etc., according to the respective websites. However, the fact that Pack's novel, The Bottom of the Sky, was named by the National Best Book 2009 Awards as one of only six finalists in the category of Fiction and Literature - General, is somewhat legitimizing, I would think, given that there were likely more than 6 entries. The National Best Book Awards are in fact used by Barnes & Noble in a national ad campaign to highlight books, as they did in an email campaign to their members last month. Of course, the motive is sales driven. I assume B&N and other booksellers will run similar campaigns when other highly-visible contest finalists are announced - such as the Pulitzer finalists in April, 2010. Pack's pubisher, Riverbend Publishing, nominated The Bottom of the Sky for the Pulitzer - the only book they have ever nominated - and paid the entry fee. OfficialBio3 (talk) 12:22, 21 November 2009 (UTC)RichardOfficialBio3 (talk) 12:22, 21 November 2009 (UTC)