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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 1916585" data-attributes="member: 1288">I have to say, as an author, that I don't want an award for "Best Author" or anything like that. Frankly, it's not sustainable.Most RPG books have multiple authors. Are you going to ask the publisher to break down who wrote which part of each book nominated? That's an awful lot of extra work, and doesn't take into account development, editing, or the fact that many co-writers trade ideas (and even small sections of text) back and forth. Are you only going to judge books with a single writer? That unfairly eliminates the vast majority of the field. Are you going to judge based on which writer is on the most books that people nominated? That's biased against writers who don't/can't do this full time, or are simply less prolific or work for less-well-known companies.Honestly, it just isn't a feasible award in any way I can imagine it. Whether that means you also shouldn't do individual artist awards or not, I leave in the hands of others. I just wanted to chime in with my opinions on trying to single out authors for awards. I'd love for us to get more acclaim that we do, both as a profession and individually. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But this isn't the way to do it.</blockquote>