Okay I don’t know about any other authors out there, but don’t we all have different preferences? I told a reader, in quote, “please to call me m8, call me author nim :)” I do not like being called m8 and it comes off rude to me. The reader responded that they don’t ask their readers to call them author nim and that mate isn’t rude.
Authors have different preferences and I hope you understand that. Ik that’s part of saying, but I just don’t think it’s appropriate to call an author m8 under their books, especially since you are an author yourself.