How can you possibly justify charging someone for submitting their pictures to a book that you intend to make a profit from? You cover your production costs by SELLING the book and putting those costs into the final price, not by asking for upfront fees. What if I wanted to buy a car and the manufacturer said that before they build it I have to pay them a fee to start it? - not going to happen is it? That's just blatantly unfair and a really good argument for why is put out by the ballistic pub people for their "Expose 3" book (which I know a lot of rendo artists are participating in having seen the submitted entries thumbs already - audre for one is there with bells on - why? BECAUSE IT'S FREE PERHAPS!???) see the link --> http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/expose3/callforentries/cgcommunity_benefits.php I am not going to pay anybody for them to maybe accept what I submit. You know I'm one of the greatest supporters of the rendo products such as the Best of DVD (it took me ages and all sorts of email to get the pencillers permissions for that one), RIM etc but you've lost me on this one. Yes I'm submitting to Expose though - why? because it's FREE! On another note I hope that you are going to feature more of the other galleries this time around and not just have the poser/3D stuff dominating like last time. Sean