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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abulia" data-source="post: 426764" data-attributes="member: 8162">Congrats...but?Now playing the part of devil's advocate is…well, me. <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=":)" />First, a hearty congratulations to those that made the cut to the second stages and beyond. Actually, I should expand that to everyone that entered--doing so certainly took guts.Now I wonder, what is the current fascination with those that didn't make the cut? Suddenly they're a hot commodity for getting rejected? Out of 10,000 (or so) entries, these lucky few made it to the next round but, sadly, their 10 page treatment wasn't good enough. Yet, somehow, these treatments are suddenly good enough for second-tier publishers?It seems a little like fighting over the scraps that Wizard's has thrown from the table. FFG got together and made an entry, but apparently didn't think "Dawnforge" was worth pursuing in house. Now it's been rejected by Wizards. Now it's suddenly cool! They're "relieved" it was rejected. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Why do I imagine the cover of "Dawnforge" will read: "DAWNFORGE: A primeval world where the great empires have not yet fallen and magic still courses through the earth like a raging river. Rejected by Wizards in the second round!" <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=":)" />RSKennan made good inroads and is a self-admitted amateur hoping to get published. (I presume with no published credits currently to his name.) By virtue of the fact that a panel of Wizard judges, using a selection process that none of us know the criteria was, accepted him for the second round the presumption is that, perhaps, his setting is somehow superior to the 9,999 others?The appearance seems to be that being rejected by Wizards affords some instant name-recognition and some clever individuals and companies are hoping to feed off of this. Kudos to them, I suppose.In closing: "I was rejected by Madonna--come date me!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />(Again, a sincere congratulations to those that participated, moved on, or fell short.)Regards,Don Mappin</blockquote>

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