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 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Wow, competition seems to be heating up.
it's a shame that they're only replying to those who get through.

How do you know?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Wow, competition seems to be heating up.
it's a shame that they're only replying to those who get through.

How do you know?

"-we will endeavour to respond to successful applicants within 30 days of your application."
I'm assuming this means that unsuccessful applicants will hear nothing.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Wow, competition seems to be heating up.
it's a shame that they're only replying to those who get through.

How do you know?

Cool your jets Feller.

If it's a competition you should know that Aussies are not allowed.









swish

I'm excited
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Expanding%20with%20Kara%20Sloan

 notprop wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Wow, competition seems to be heating up.
it's a shame that they're only replying to those who get through.

How do you know?

Cool your jets Feller.

If it's a competition you should know that Aussies are not allowed.

swish

It's a job posting, not a contest.

they also have the same for freelance painters!!!

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
"-we will endeavour to respond to successful applicants within 30 days of your application."
I'm assuming this means that unsuccessful applicants will hear nothing.

Bah! I'm a writer, not a reader!

But no, that's a good point. I missed that.

 Squidmanlolz wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Wow, competition seems to be heating up.
it's a shame that they're only replying to those who get through.

How do you know?

"-we will endeavour to respond to successful applicants within 30 days of your application."
I'm assuming this means that unsuccessful applicants will hear nothing.

Or they'll get a phone call from GW where they are put on speaker phone and laughed at.

 ProtoClone wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
Wow, competition seems to be heating up.
it's a shame that they're only replying to those who get through.

How do you know?

"-we will endeavour to respond to successful applicants within 30 days of your application."
I'm assuming this means that unsuccessful applicants will hear nothing.

Or they'll get a phone call from GW where they are put on speaker phone and laughed at.

That would require GW to interact with its fanbase, which is a laughable concept

I could go all tinfoil hat and suggest they are hoping to get lots of IP infringing fan fiction based on GW stuff sent to them by prospective writers...

who they can then C&D giving management a warm and cosy feeling....

50 shades of grey knights..

please let this be a thing

wasnt there a story of somthing somthing silver knight somthing somthing slannehs?

Very interesting. I've been having a play with writing in-universe character diaries this month, and hadn't realised how much fun the setting could be. If I can dislodge my brain from the top of my mouth, I might put an email in.
I suspect the initial emails will be pulled purely at random/when someone at the other end has time, but as it says there's no deadline, it can't hurt.

 Desubot wrote:
50 shades of grey knights..

please let this be a thing

wasnt there a story of somthing somthing silver knight somthing somthing slannehs?

Silver Space Marine with silvered-adamantium will who could kill Daemonette with his eyes closed with a sword.

Don't want to say it's Dairgo but....

Hah, I've tried submitting to Black Library a few times in the past. Might as well give this a shot. I'll have to dust off the old books. Thanks for the link.

They replied to my submission!

...sort of. I saw this thread a couple of nights ago, and I said "why not?" and sent in a response. Early this morning came the response, which was a kind-of rejection. See an excerpt below:

"...we were delighted by your enthusiasm, however, we felt that the subject matter you want to cover is not appropriate for Games Workshop at this time. As a result, sending you the test may be redundant. What we would advise is that you explore our current, existing fiction and think about the style and subject matter we cover. If you would still like to complete the test, please reply to this email..."

So, this means they're not looking for any writers regarding developing the 40k Tzeentch fluff (which is either really good, or really bad). But getting a response is a good sign, right? Any idea what they might be looking for specifically?

What did you write in your submission?

Encouraging that they're at least sending out responses, even for rejections.

 Scourged wrote:
They replied to my submission!

...sort of. I saw this thread a couple of nights ago, and I said "why not?" and sent in a response. Early this morning came the response, which was a kind-of rejection. See an excerpt below:

"...we were delighted by your enthusiasm, however, we felt that the subject matter you want to cover is not appropriate for Games Workshop at this time. As a result, sending you the test may be redundant. What we would advise is that you explore our current, existing fiction and think about the style and subject matter we cover. If you would still like to complete the test, please reply to this email..."

So, this means they're not looking for any writers regarding developing the 40k Tzeentch fluff (which is either really good, or really bad). But getting a response is a good sign, right? Any idea what they might be looking for specifically?

Kinda curious what you proposed! :-)

Huh. I haven't gotten a response yet at all and it's been a couple days. I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad one.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Huh. I haven't gotten a response yet at all and it's been a couple days. I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad one.

You still have 27 days before you can call it a definite "no" so i guess keep the faith until the deadline for a reply passes.


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 Scourged wrote:
They replied to my submission!

...sort of. I saw this thread a couple of nights ago, and I said "why not?" and sent in a response. Early this morning came the response, which was a kind-of rejection. See an excerpt below:

"...we were delighted by your enthusiasm, however, we felt that the subject matter you want to cover is not appropriate for Games Workshop at this time. As a result, sending you the test may be redundant. What we would advise is that you explore our current, existing fiction and think about the style and subject matter we cover. If you would still like to complete the test, please reply to this email..."

So, this means they're not looking for any writers regarding developing the 40k Tzeentch fluff (which is either really good, or really bad). But getting a response is a good sign, right? Any idea what they might be looking for specifically?

Lots of muscle men wearing tanktops sweating in the hot jungle hunting the enemy with only the smell of oil and fumes from the Tanks plus the smell of manhood to accompany them. If we go by the reputation they seem to have for being misogynist then lots of stuff about men doing manly things lol.

But in reality not sure they left things pretty vague on what they want except talking about atmospheric battlefields.

 SpookyBoogie wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Huh. I haven't gotten a response yet at all and it's been a couple days. I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad one.

You still have 27 days before you can call it a definite "no" so i guess keep the faith until the deadline for a reply passes.

All my faith was used up waiting for a Sisters release though! :(

Seriously though, I guess I passed the initial rejection pile but I'm keeping my hopes low just in case.

 Malika2 wrote:

Kinda curious what you proposed! :-)

To keep it brief, this is the heart of what I sent in:

"I feel as though there is so much potential in exploring the Cult of Tzeentch: the Faustian bargains for power and glory that will always end in ruin, the modern incarnation of the resentful djinn who twist the wishes of mortals, and perhaps most of all the damning crusade of questing to possess all knowledge in an endless Sisyphean cycle."

The cynic in me says that turned it down due to lack of BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! But hey, I guess my flowery language impressed them enough to shoot me a reply.

I figure I'll keep browsing through their library and such and see if I can come up with any ideas. Regardless of what I come up with, I figure I'll reply and ask to take their test anyway. For all I know, I can steal... er... borrow SpookyBoogie's suggestion (love it!) and work my way in, then slowly, over time, start submitting the writing I actually enjoy and wish to explore. Just as planned...

Thinking of sending them an few lines directly out of "spot the space marine" just to see if they'd catch it. Might be funny if I got an offer

I'm going to pretty much use this as an open "I've got an idea" email address to pester once a month or so.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 SpookyBoogie wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Huh. I haven't gotten a response yet at all and it's been a couple days. I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad one.

You still have 27 days before you can call it a definite "no" so i guess keep the faith until the deadline for a reply passes.

All my faith was used up waiting for a Sisters release though! :(

Seriously though, I guess I passed the initial rejection pile but I'm keeping my hopes low just in case.

That is an awful lot of faith used up already. I guess there are two ways of looking at it.

1. The nice way. If they really felt you were not suitable and balked at what they saw they would have probably wrote back just to say "thanks but no thanks" so you made it to the "maybe" pile or they put you on the list for the first test phase.

2. The horrible way. They thought your pitch was so bad it's not even worth replying to and they instantly deleted the email as spam.

Or you can take the third.

3. They got a lot of submissions and they are getting through them in batches. They just didn't get to reading yours yet.

Is it too late to send the script from If the Emperor had a text to speech devise?

I think the majority of rejections will come from people who didn't follow the brief given on the website and just went full "OMG I want to write about all my awesome fan fiction LOL!" at them.

I havening of the application did.

Hopful of remuneration talks.

I too got the reply regarding satisfaction with enthusiasm but a request for a topic change. I personally wanted to focus on a rag-tag Imperial militia of normal residents and adeptus arbites fighting a guerilla war against a chaos incursion, with lots of twists and turns and a really dark undertone to the whole thing. However I suspect like many others that we would be more than happy to change our topic to address the brief; it's the principle of adding to the universe of 40k in our own way that wets our appetite.

I've got few couple suspicions. We have to take the two tests anyway, and a stock letter is appropriate for any reasonable submission. I suspect this is the best version of the letter and merely prepares us for rejection during the tests. They gave the replies in waves, so they'll probably give the tests in waves, and this letter gives them an intermediate period to prepare.

If there is a better version of the letter, I imagine it went to people who didn't want to push the boundaries and just gushed about Space Marines. Then again, I could see that getting the 'different topic' letter too.

 DarkHound wrote:
I've got few couple suspicions. We have to take the two tests anyway, and a stock letter is appropriate for any reasonable submission. I suspect this is the best version of the letter and merely prepares us for rejection during the tests. They gave the replies in waves, so they'll probably give the tests in waves, and this letter gives them an intermediate period to prepare.

If there is a better version of the letter, I imagine it went to people who didn't want to push the boundaries and just gushed about Space Marines. Then again, I could see that getting the 'different topic' letter too.

This doesn't sound unreasonable. I am curious as to what the testing process will be.