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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cassander" data-source="post: 4437608" data-attributes="member: 8838">I don't see the editor thing as a problem. If you had three writers and you awarded the ENnie to them, couldn't they simply thank their editor who helped them much like the publishers do now or how people at say the Oscars do? I guess there'd be an issue in creating enough medals for a book written by say 6 people. Then you'd have to find a lead writer to give it to, but that still seems like it'd make more sense than just giving it to the publisher. I'm guessing they hand those out later. But I would think that if a book has one writer, that person should get the ENnie. Same for the cover artist. Or cartographer. Or graphic designer. Interior illustration I could see either going to the art director, the artists collectively, or both. Looking back in history, I notice the first two ENnies list the individual recipients and then it stopped for the third, so perhaps these problems came up and it was easier to do it for publishers. I just worry this shortchanges the contributions from the writers and artists while overemphasizing the "medal count" among publishers. And I wanted to hear from the person doing the work, not the publisher, unless it was a publisher award.</blockquote>