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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 1733631" data-attributes="member: 4275">I believe we entered everything we had made in the past year. While Im not sure where all of that came in I can give you a run down on what just four of them cost us, namely the Darwin's World 2nd edition HC, the Legends of Excalibur HC, the Blood and Fists SC and the Blood and Guts SC. 6x Darwin's World 2e (40 dollars each)= 240 dollars6x Legends of Excalibur (30 dollars each)= 180 dollars (420 total)6x Blood and Guts (20 dollars each)=120 dollars (540 total)6x Blood and Fists (15 dollars each)=90 dollars (630 total)Plus shipping. As I said I dont know where the whole figure Chris quoted me came from, but just those four were the bulk of it. Well I didnt mean to sound vindictive. Its not like Im saying raise the entry fee and we'd bail in a snit or something. It was hard for me, at the price quoted above to convince the boss to enter the Ennies this year. When, after being nominated three years in a row I routinely run into ENW regulars who have no idea our company exists, its sometimes hard to justify it as a marketing expense, one that comes much later in the life cycle of some products (especially in the case of Blood and Fists and Blood and Guts those books had already done the bulk of their sales).So it would probably NOT cause us to enter nothing. And maybe companies like us, who don't stand much of a chance to win, for which nominations are the whole honor, entering fewer products is a good thing for the Ennies. Well we don't print every product, so when we enter all our print products, as I believe we did this year, that is the cream of the crop. But as I said, for smaller companies like us who don't stand a lot of chance in the popular voting (no this isn't me being snippy either- I just dont feel we have the "presence" to get nominated over a company like GR), that might be a good thing for the Ennies, and Im ok with that.People just asked for publisher opinions and I know that for us, its been a question mark every year and this year, with our print schedule expanding rather considerably, and especially with our first two hardcovers being entered this year, the cost for us went up rather steeply, and there were some serious internal discussions about whether it was worth it for us. So as the cost continues to climb it becomes a harder sell.If ENWorld is losing money on it I wouldn't regret them doing whatever they had to do to stop that from happening. If that means raising the bar for submissions financially I can understand that side of it. Chuck</blockquote>

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