Awards & Honors
The Communicator Silver Award of Distinction
(Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts, 2015)
Received this award as editor of Journey 2014, our company’s employee annual report in print and digital formats.
Best of Show Award (Insurance & Financial Communicators Association, 2012)
Won this recognition for the company’s multi-channel retrospective on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, which I edited.
Award of Excellence (Insurance & Financial Communicators Association, 2011) Earned for the 2010 relaunch of Columns, our flagship field publication. I handled production and change management for this shift from a biweekly newsletter to a monthly magazine.
Pen & Paper Fan Awards for the roleplaying game industry
- Fan Favorite Editor (2002, 2003, 2004)
- Fan Favorite Publisher (Malhavoc Press, 2003)
- Best Roleplaying Game (Arcana Unearthed [editor], 2003)
- Best Adventure (The Banewarrens [editor], 2002)
Gen Con EN World Roleplaying Game Awards
- Best Cover Art (Gold 2006, 2005; Silver 2004)
- Best Supplement (Silver 2006, 2005)
- Best Interior Artwork (Gold 2005)
- Best d20 Game (Gold 2005, 2004)
- Best Revision/Update (Gold 2004)
- Best Publisher (Gold 2003)
- Best Official Website (Gold 2003, 2001)
- Best Adventure (Gold 2003, 2002)
- Best Electronic Product (Silver 2003)
- Best Rulebook (Gold 2001)
- Best Editor (Gold 2001)
“Maggie” Award (Western Publications Association, 1999)
Earned in the Quarterly and Fiction Consumer Magazine category for Amazing Stories, for which I was managing editor.
“Games 100” Best Adventure and Roleplaying Game (Games Magazine, 1996)
Earned for Dragonlance: Fifth Age, which I edited.
“Best Roleplaying Game Supplement” (Origins Award, 1996)
Earned for the Birthright Campaign Setting, which I co-edited.
“Extremely knowledgeable and thorough editor … has the tenacity to always go the extra mile to make certain an audience’s needs are met.”
Renee Roubique,
Lead Product Manager at Northwestern Mutual
“Sue has proven experience and creativity to design, implement and run complex, multi-channel, multi-audience publishing operations.”
Leslie O’Connell,
Director of Strategic Communications
at Northwestern Mutual
“Sue edited a book project for me, and her expertise and thoughtfulness added tremendous value.”
Jill Baake,
author of “I Love Me Mom”
