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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abulia" data-source="post: 1813850" data-attributes="member: 8162">Yes, but how many fiction writers frequent the Wizards web site, in particular the very poor novel news section? (Rhetorical question, none of us know for certain.)It's been a bit since I've flipped through Writer's Market, but I'd hazard to say that Wizards of the Coast isn't on the rotation for most aspiring fiction writers for submitting non-setting specific material. Also keep in mind the nature of the open call: to wit, I've seen notifications here, Gaming Report, RPG.net, and the Wizards message boards. No mention in, say, Writer's Digest, as an example.My point being is that the hobby and gaming industry is incredibly small and not well known. I'm not sure how many people outside of "our realm" have heard about this open call. Furthermore, assuming the word does eventually trickle out to more the more mainstream avenues, precious time will have passed by then.Industry authors also have pre-existing commitments and deadlines; they have to work their current schedule into fitting the open call in there somehow. I'd hazard to say this is your main source of competition.Those are simply my opinions so take them as you will. I think everyone's chances are better than one might think on the surface. It's all rather academic if you can't produce 90K of material to begin with, though. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I apologize for my tardiness in responding to this thread; I was traveling on business plus the site outage made it difficult to get caught back up.</blockquote>

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