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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 1039942" data-attributes="member: 5724">Well, after a long nights rest, I'm up and ready to post.Wow, where should I start?  <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=":)" />  Guess I'll do the daily run down for us and then on into more business related stuff.Tues.  We show up, get badges, gawk at how huge the retailer room is.Wed. We set up, meet our table mates, Ann from Grey Ghost Press, Mark from Gold Rush Publishing, and Tika and Bynw from psionics.net (they host the chat here and with Kathrine Kurtz of Dyrini novel fame)Thurs. The maddness sets in. We met droves and droves of people. All but a few, very friendly and socially skilled... <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=":)" />  We don't make it to little canadia because we're tired and plan on socializing on friday.Friday: Keep working the booth and try to contain the nerves about the ENnies.Thanks so much to everyone for voting for us. Its funny that we win an award for being good writers and I can't quite find the words to adequately describe the joy of sweeping 3 gold ennies.  I don't know, its simply breathtaking. It let us know that all the effort and sweat we put into the product paid off. I thought there were people out there who would appreciate MMS:WE, but I didn't expect to win over the likes of the Book of the Righteous and Requiem for a God.  Simply astounding.  Thanks again! <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=":)" />Sat: more working the booth.  I don't remember sat.  hrm..... aha!  I was hung over because I can't hold my beer anymore.  My liver hurt.Sun: break down the booth and have dinner with our booth mates. We both really wanted to see everyone at o'roukes but we got out to late to make it.General people notes:Russ: Tall, breezy, looked like he lost his luggage.... oh wait.. he did!Hellhound: Friendly and jovial. Not at all the toughguy I was expecting.... hehe course buttering up the kids tends to do that with papa bear.Dextra: (from suzi..) "We now know who wears the pants." <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=":)" />Psion: ******* pokerfaced **********!!!!  <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=":)" /> Nice to meet you even if you're utterly inscrutable.Crothian: Gregarious and polite. Then again, I didn't have to share a suite with him....  Nice to meet you face to face after so much correspondance via post.alsih20: beautiful work on the awards. They're resting on our desk right now until we can figure out where to prominately display them. Sorry we couldn't make it to your house, I'd love to have a beer or two with you and learn about Kilns.Hal and Doug: Peanut butter and Jelly. "The butter and jam of my toast" (from suzi)Teflon Billy: Is one handsome man. Looks like Mike Madson in Resiviour Dogs. However, TB didn't cut off Hal's ear so that's where the comparason ends. Nice to drink and exchange big easy stories.James: Nice to meet the guy who runs rpgnow.com. Even if you did mess up the ennie awards... <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=":)" />  Hope everything worked out for you at the booth this con.We're sorry we didn't have more time for this GenCon, but it was our first and we were working a lot of hours at the booth. in 2004, we'll be better prepared and should have more time for socializing than we did this time around. I didn't get to speak as much as I would have like to with a lot of you out there, but just breifly meeting you all is helpful. Always like faces to go with names.General con notes:Big, busy, concrete.  The floor killed my feet, and may have actually damaged my achillies heel. Going to give it a few days to see if it works itself out or of to the doctor. I'm having to limp heavily and can barely walk.Long lines. Hopefully this will get fixed next year. Cost us in sales on Saturday.Business related stuff:Hellhound, we get to be GenCon VIPS in 2004!  Whoot, glad you mentioned it, I would have missed it completely.TeflonBilly, there's no NDA at all about our next product so talk about it all you want. <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=":)" />  (please... <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=":)" />)We sold pretty good, and a lot of people were excited to finally get the book, but we could have done better had we our name on the list of exhibitors (as opposed to just being part of the GPA) and had saturday not been so bad. That aside, it was very nice of Ann to let us share her booth and at the end of the day we pretty much broke even. That made us very happy and we came home with a bag of traded swag.Distribution: Everybody seemed to want to help us get distribution and introduced us to several distributors. It looks like we have a pretty good chance of signing on with 3 or 4 large(er) distributors. This is probably to prelimanary to be saying, but it looks like MMS:WE will finally be hitting the bookshelves of FLGS across the US (and maybe elsewhere)!  <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=":)" />Well that's our GenCon experience.  I want to thank everyone who's reviewed MMS:WE. We also want to again thank Monte for his surprise review. You probably aren't aware of the effect that had for us, but it was an amazing benefit to get Expeditious Retreat Press and MMS:WE out in the open.  I also want to thank Morrus and the guys who run ENworld. Without you all, none of this would have been possible.Next year, if we're nominated and manage to win, Suzi's promised to let me speak.  <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=":)" />joe b.</blockquote>

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