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specficmarkets has posted a link to an open call by Wizards of the Coast for novel-length submissions to launch a new SF/F/H line. I haven't un.zipped the legal docs yet (so this could all be moot, depending on what surprises might be lurking therein), but on the face of it the opportunity is intriguing: WotC, AKA "the dudes who bought out TSR", have a certain amount of muscle in the general field (read: marketing guys with connections), and the launch of a new line, as per Harlequin's "Luna" F-romance line a while back, is the sort of thing that Gets Attention (read: somebody actually tells the marketing guys to do stuff for the book). OTOH, there's the downside of being associated with some of WotC's other print output...
So I am conflicted: should "Publisher B" respond to me in the negative before WtoC's March 1st 2005 deadline, ought I to take the plunge and ship materials RE the Manuscript off to see how they fare at this outlet? It's not exactly the sort of thing I had in mind for this Manuscript, but then I doubt JK Rowling thought she'd end up at Scholastic either...
EDIT, since Netscape crashed so I took a moment to review the .PDF while I'm still sitting here: Hm, the legal paper's just a standard-looking "nobody sue nobody" sort of thing, so there's one work-for-hire-nightmare-scenario possibility out of the way. Am becoming quite intrigued...
specficmarkets has posted a link to an open call by Wizards of the Coast for novel-length submissions to launch a new SF/F/H line. I haven't un.zipped the legal docs yet (so this could all be moot, depending on what surprises might be lurking therein), but on the face of it the opportunity is intriguing: WotC, AKA "the dudes who bought out TSR", have a certain amount of muscle in the general field (read: marketing guys with connections), and the launch of a new line, as per Harlequin's "Luna" F-romance line a while back, is the sort of thing that Gets Attention (read: somebody actually tells the marketing guys to do stuff for the book). OTOH, there's the downside of being associated with some of WotC's other print output...So I am conflicted: should "Publisher B" respond to me in the negative before WtoC's March 1st 2005 deadline, ought I to take the plunge and ship materials RE the Manuscript off to see how they fare at this outlet? It's not exactly the sort of thing I had in mind for this Manuscript, but then I doubt JK Rowling thought she'd end up at Scholastic either...
EDIT, since Netscape crashed so I took a moment to review the .PDF while I'm still sitting here: Hm, the legal paper's just a standard-looking "nobody sue nobody" sort of thing, so there's one work-for-hire-nightmare-scenario possibility out of the way. Am becoming quite intrigued...