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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 2020511" data-attributes="member: 3285">Not to take anything away from Mr. Davis (I own at least five of the books he's written, actually), but here's the text from the WOTC site:<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/main/wartornguidelines" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/main/wartornguidelines</a>So what does &quot;published&quot; mean?&nbsp; Just fiction?&nbsp; Or at all?&nbsp; Could you argue that RPGs ARE fiction?&nbsp; Or that RPG game fiction counts too?&nbsp; And what counts as a a &quot;launched&quot; career? Who knows. Certainly, WOTC was not bound to take a new author, they just encouraged &quot;unpublished&quot; authors to submit, which is still really cool.Conversely, there's a quote in Eberron that states on page 7 regarding the world submission contest:And yet, the Pen &amp; Paper database disagrees: <a href="http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&amp;creatorid=2961" target="_blank">http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&amp;creatorid=2961</a>So I suppose the notion of &quot;unpublished&quot; and &quot;professional&quot; is rather flexible in this context.Oh well, there's always the other novel submission contest......If R.A. Salvatore wins that contest I'm giving up. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="talien, post: 2020511, member: 3285"] Not to take anything away from Mr. Davis (I own at least five of the books he's written, actually), but here's the text from the WOTC site: [url]http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/main/wartornguidelines[/url] So what does "published" mean? Just fiction? Or at all? Could you argue that RPGs ARE fiction? Or that RPG game fiction counts too? And what counts as a a "launched" career? Who knows. Certainly, WOTC was not bound to take a new author, they just encouraged "unpublished" authors to submit, which is still really cool. Conversely, there's a quote in Eberron that states on page 7 regarding the world submission contest: And yet, the Pen & Paper database disagrees: [url]http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=2961[/url] So I suppose the notion of "unpublished" and "professional" is rather flexible in this context. Oh well, there's always the other novel submission contest... [SIZE=1]...If R.A. Salvatore wins that contest I'm giving up.[/SIZE] :) [/QUOTE]

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