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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4766797" data-attributes="member: 11697">Thanks for looking into things Scott, it's very much appreciated.Fairly or not, the fact that there has been a rather limited pool of contributors to e-Dragon and e-Dungeon, and not even a form rejection letter is sent if a given query isn't of interest, it leads to the perception that the entire thing is the equivalent of a closed shop, and that if you're not in-house or one of the freelancers who started working early on 4e material, your submissions won't be given a second glance.Given that in the past, the print versions of Dragon and Dungeon gave responses to queries, and currently KQ manages to respond to queries, even if it happens to be a rejection, doesn't help that perception.In my case, I had one thing that's a bit different from the situations mentioned above, because I was asked to forward something already written and was told that I would get a response once they read it over, and then I never did, nor did my followup emails receive any response as well. That's not encouraging to say the very least.At the moment the entire process seems like a black box with zero feedback to interested potential authors. I have to wonder if it's only enforcing and exacerbating the situation where you guys say you aren't getting queries that you're interested in, because folks are taking their ideas elsewhere that doesn't seem closed off and non-responsive. People used to talk all over the Paizo boards about queries they had submitted and had rejected, or discussion between folks waiting for feedback on queries or on submitted manuscripts. I haven't seen a single thread doing the same over on the WotC forums within the e-zines subforums - not a single one. I have seen multiple threads asking if you're even taking submissions/looking at queries, and most of those fade after a few people wander by and post that they don't know, or haven't heard anything but silence on their own, etc.So please, please improve communication in that area, because I think you're doing yourself a disservice and probably alienating folks who want to submit material. The 'assume after 60 days of dead silence that we're not interested' approach is probably the wrong one to take.</blockquote>

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