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Does anyone know how to find them?
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I thought this forum was a bit friendlier than that.
Does anyone have some helpful input for my question?
Thanks

All information about Black library’s current web-based incarnation can be found at the following link;

http://www.blacklibrary.com/

I keep pretty good tabs on them and there don’t appear to be any open submissions at this time.

Yeah the BL forum used to be awsome. As of a few months ago they must have hired "That kid they know who is good with computers" to be their web master. If ANY company I know of had done that sloppy of a transition to a new website their IT department would have been black balled (If not shot).

EDIT: Grammer

ComputerGeek01 wrote:Yeah the BL forum used to be awsome. As of a few months ago they must have hired "That kid they know who is good with computers" to be their web master. If ANY company I know of had done that sloppy of a transition to a new website their IT department would have been black balled (If not shot).

EDIT: Grammer

No doubt. I'm a professional web developer and I could have built ten websites and intigrated forums in the time it's taken them to build this new one.

Black Library doesn't seem to be the type of publisher to accept submissions from most folk. Likely, the writers who write for them are approached by Black Library, or already have a reputation to stand on when they go to BL. Considering the content of BL novels, its also likely that many of the authors have connections to people in GW (not that I've ever bothered finding out if that's true, it would just be typical for a publisher that prints novels like the 40k books).

They used to have one back then, IIRC, but not so much now...

LordofHats wrote:Black Library doesn't seem to be the type of publisher to accept submissions from most folk. Likely, the writers who write for them are approached by Black Library, or already have a reputation to stand on when they go to BL.

They actually do. Before their site went down they had a “Fear the Alien” anthology competition where writers could submit. I submitted but didn’t win. They also said that the competitions were being discontinued but when the site came back up there’d be a call for open submissions. The format was still being worked out but it’s likely that every so often they’ll put up a post that says “We need stories about Blood Angels” or “We need stories about Tyranids”. There will be a minimum and maximum word count and if the story is good, it’ll be incorporated into an anthology. If the story is really good, the manuscript will be shelved and evaluated for potential to be made into a stand alone novel.

That was several months ago. I’ve been checking the BL website ever since.

LordofHats wrote:Considering the content of BL novels, its also likely that many of the authors have connections to people in GW (not that I've ever bothered finding out if that's true, it would just be typical for a publisher that prints novels like the 40k books).

I don’t disagree with you. Of course I still want to be published by BL some day so I’ll keep my comments to myself. I’ll just represent my thoughts in an image:

incarna wrote:
They actually do. Before their site went down they had a “Fear the Alien” anthology competition where writers could submit. I submitted but didn’t win. They also said that the competitions were being discontinued but when the site came back up there’d be a call for open submissions. The format was still being worked out but it’s likely that every so often they’ll put up a post that says “We need stories about Blood Angels” or “We need stories about Tyranids”. There will be a minimum and maximum word count and if the story is good, it’ll be incorporated into an anthology. If the story is really good, the manuscript will be shelved and evaluated for potential to be made into a stand alone novel.

Then I am wrong.

I don’t disagree with you. Of course I still want to be published by BL some day so I’ll keep my comments to myself. I’ll just represent my thoughts in an image:

Kudos.

Thanks for the input, everyone

And incarna: that totally picked up my day haha