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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2567823" data-attributes="member: 11760">Paranoid? I am under no illusions that anyone at WotC is out to get me.And for the purposes of this discussion, a fiction author never published outside of game fiction is an amateur novelist. I don't think that's a broad definition at all.I don't see writing novels as career advancement. If the goal of a publishing line is to publish the best fiction possible, "promoting from within" instead of going with a strict meritocracy is a bad idea. If that's not the idea, then WotC doesn't need knights in shining armor riding to the defense of their novels' quality.What empty argument? They publish people who have never published a novel before, chosen more for apparent personal ties than by their skills. Then people complain about the quality of their work. The only argument I'm making here is that there's a link. I'm not sure it's a particularly shocking conclusion to reach.How is it vague to say that someone hasn't had a novel or other fiction published other than game fiction? That's a pretty cut and dried question.I'm not sure that was what I was trying to prove, but OK. Strawman time it is, I suppose.Um, there's no assumptions necessary when you read their bio and hey, look at that, this is their first published work.Mmm, personal attacks, I like it.Dig up the polls done on this board about how people feel about game fiction. You have a lot more people to attack.</blockquote>

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