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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malladin" data-source="post: 1915994" data-attributes="member: 8230">I think the idea, Joe, is to award the artist as an individual as opposed to the company, but I maybe wrong.  If not, then perhaps it should be, like in the oscars the actopr gets nominated for their acting and the director/producers have separate awards for the film as a whole.  I support this point, though.  Maybe call it "best peice of art" and allow the artists themselves to submit...? Okay, just another point.  I did make this point on a previous Ennie thread, but I joined late and so my idea didn't get much consideration (although it may have been that it was a crap idea, but I thought I'd repost it so that everyone can at least tell me as such as last time I got no comments). My idea is thus; in the last threads on such topics publishers were 'complaining' that winning or being nominated for an Ennie didn't have much impact on sales as products usually only sell well for the first two months.  My suggestion is that products should be submitted to judges as they are released and those of good enough quality should be added to a short list, which is notified straight away.  That way a publisher can get a good hit in sales as they can advertise a product as 'Ennie Shortlisted' shortly after it is released.  If they could send a PDF before the book is actually sent to the printers they might even be able to add a logo on the front of the book if they get the shortlisting.  This would help both the products and the public awareness of the Ennies (and possibly ENWorld itself). Anyway, feel free to rip that to shreads if you think its a stupid idea <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Cheerio, Ben</blockquote>

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