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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Don't have *55* categories and give awards in each one. (Maybe it's 54 categories, I kind of lost count).
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Also, don't charge authors to be considered for the award. I can't take seriously an award like that.
Pay to play, and lots of winners, may go together, since if authors see that there is only a tiny chance of winning, they probably won't compete.
I don't think receiving a respected award would necessarily cause sales to skyrocket. But the next book would probably get mainstream media reviews and then be likely to have thousands of library sales (assuming the book is sold to libraries).
I do realize that there is a problem with funding such an award. A rich person might have to endow it. If unlikely, that's fine with me. A decline in big publishers, resulting in decreasing numbers of nonfiction book proposals being accepted, is not to me a joyous outcome.