Thanks! I really wish we could see a few more stories from Realms making the preliminary ballot. Right now, we're getting buried by those Asimov's and Analog and FSF folks!

Do you know how Realms' circulation compares to the other big 'zines? My sense was that Realms had more readers, but not as many of the SFWA and Worldcon crowd. But I've got no hard evidence one way or another.

The last circulation numbers I saw were in Gardner's yearly summary for YEAR'S BEST ANTHO. He gave the the 2006 #'s for the other mags, but Realms lags behind for some reason, so for us the #'s were from 2005. According to his report, we now have a larger circulation than Asimov's & F&SF. Analog's circulation is still bigger than us, though not by much. I'm really curious to see what RoF's 2006 circulation numbers will look like, because I think our upgraded website (and yes, I know it still needs more upgrades) may have landed us a nice chunk of subscriptions.

All this said, I agree with your assessment that Realms doesn't have as many readers from the SFWA & Worldcon crowds as the other major magazines. I also don't have any hard data to support this, but it would certainly explain not having a single Hugo nominee on the final ballot, and having a limited # of Nebula nominees on the final ballot, 7 with just one 1 winner (hopefully you'll make 8 and 2 respectively). That one World Fantasy nomination needs a different excuse though ...