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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 2600143" data-attributes="member: 11064">I think Crothian summed most of it up pretty well, but let me add a few things. 1. If you have a significant other, be prepared for them to hate what you are doing. You will be spending lots of time reading, comparing, making notes, reading again, and generally not doing the normal stuff you do with them for a good period of time. I have gone on vacation and taken 15 books with me to read during the week, gone on a weekend anniversary trip and spent much of it reading, and even brought a few books on my honeymoon two years ago in order to get everything done. 2. If you are not prepared to sacrifice vacation time, school or job work, sleep, living space, and game time, don't be a judge. Period. The books and the judging will take up lots of space, boith physically and figuratively, in your life for a significant amount of time. 3. In the responsibilities Denise listed above, she said "-Expect to dedicate at least two weeks of full-time reading and another week of deliberation in June." Bulls%&t. That's the bare minimum if you want to slide by and let the other judges do more than their share of the work. Expect to dedicate 4 weeks reading and 2 weeks deliberating, and you will still be behind. It's a thankless job, and you will hate it at times. 4. Expect to spend your own money buying rulebooks and other stuff you normally wouldn't pick up in order to judge the stuff that is sent it. I have picked up several RPG books that I will probably never play, but needed to have the basis for a system down before I could judge what was sent it. 5. Expect to take some heat from authors and publishers whose works don't get nominated. Usually it is light and casual, they just want to know why their books did not make the list. But I have been verbally abused by one author, and told that the judges were biased against him. It's not an easy position to be put into, and you have to be prepared to stand your ground in the face of accusations. Every parent believes their kid is the cutest, and every author believes their book is the best. You are going to disappoint and anger some people. Some will not take it well, and you might be the guy they decide to lash out at. 6. If you hate reading PDFs onscreen, son't be a judge. You'll get a lot of PDFs, and unless you work at Kinkos, you'll never be able to print them all out and will spend lots of time reading onscreen. 7. Something good-you will get to know your fellow judges quite well, and learn A LOT from them. Everyone sees things a bit differently, and you willget some eye opening observations from them. You'll also need to be able to stand your ground when you have a strong opinion and the others disagree with you, but also need to know when to compromise and make a decision with the others.</blockquote>

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