More details in the thread below, but basically, Lauren Hough lied:
- Book is “nominated” - this just means you or your publisher pay the entry fee and submit the copies. It’s not any sort of honor, it’s paperwork.
- Finalists are selected by the judging committee and announced/promoted by Lambda Literary
- Winners are announced by Lambda Literary at the beginning of June.
LH’s book was never named a finalist! And may or may not have been under other circumstances. Lambda Literary just said they would decline to evaluate the book for a finalist position because of the bad, anti-trans behavior.
So LH basically lied and used general confusion about an award process/terminology to make it look like she had something taken from her that she never even had in the first place.
