The Black Library

[DarkElf27]

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Themed annual contests, you say? That sounds relatively promising, any further information on that, or a place I could find such?

I think they already had one this year, or the last, themed around Chaos Space Marines IIRC.

I'm not surprised, considering their new line of Chaos models and codices running parallel... Any idea of the level of participation? Are they looking for short stories, or full transcripts?  

[Hoxtalicious]

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Themed annual contests, you say? That sounds relatively promising, any further information on that, or a place I could find such?

I think they already had one this year, or the last, themed around Chaos Space Marines IIRC.

I'm not surprised, considering their new line of Chaos models and codices running parallel... Any idea of the level of participation? Are they looking for short stories, or full transcripts?

Competition is high, though in the end only two were picked, as the rest of the book is filled with stories from regular writers.  

[DarkElf27]

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Themed annual contests, you say? That sounds relatively promising, any further information on that, or a place I could find such?

I think they already had one this year, or the last, themed around Chaos Space Marines IIRC.

I'm not surprised, considering their new line of Chaos models and codices running parallel... Any idea of the level of participation? Are they looking for short stories, or full transcripts?

Competition is high, though in the end only two were picked, as the rest of the book is filled with stories from regular writers.

Interesting. So they're looking more for short stories for anthologies than anything else?  

[Hoxtalicious]

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Themed annual contests, you say? That sounds relatively promising, any further information on that, or a place I could find such?

I think they already had one this year, or the last, themed around Chaos Space Marines IIRC.

I'm not surprised, considering their new line of Chaos models and codices running parallel... Any idea of the level of participation? Are they looking for short stories, or full transcripts?

Competition is high, though in the end only two were picked, as the rest of the book is filled with stories from regular writers.

Interesting. So they're looking more for short stories for anthologies than anything else?

Well, you don't want to put out the order for full novels and rely on nobodies for that now will you? To give you an example, Sarah Cawkwell started out by writing a few short stories for BL before she got permission to write full-on novels.  

[DarkElf27]

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

I'm not surprised, considering their new line of Chaos models and codices running parallel... Any idea of the level of participation? Are they looking for short stories, or full transcripts?

Competition is high, though in the end only two were picked, as the rest of the book is filled with stories from regular writers.

Interesting. So they're looking more for short stories for anthologies than anything else?

Well, you don't want to put out the order for full novels and rely on nobodies for that now will you? To give you an example, Sarah Cawkwell started out by writing a few short stories for BL before she got permission to write full-on novels.

That makes a good deal of sense, and is honestly probably the easier way to go about it anyway.  

[Hoxtalicious]

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

Lt. Brookman

DarkElf27

I'm not surprised, considering their new line of Chaos models and codices running parallel... Any idea of the level of participation? Are they looking for short stories, or full transcripts?

Competition is high, though in the end only two were picked, as the rest of the book is filled with stories from regular writers.

Interesting. So they're looking more for short stories for anthologies than anything else?

Well, you don't want to put out the order for full novels and rely on nobodies for that now will you? To give you an example, Sarah Cawkwell started out by writing a few short stories for BL before she got permission to write full-on novels.

That makes a good deal of sense, and is honestly probably the easier way to go about it anyway.

Yeah, BL wouldn't just let anyone write full on novels, those are big investments.  

[Angels Sonata]

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?  

[DarkElf27]

Angels Sonata

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?

Indeed, it seems the best ways into that narrow niche is either to enter their annual writing contests or to get developed as a published author elsewhere on other topics, and then come back and hit them up.  

[Angels Sonata]

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?

Indeed, it seems the best ways into that narrow niche is either to enter their annual writing contests or to get developed as a published author elsewhere on other topics, and then come back and hit them up.

Ah fair enough. I remember the time when it used to be a case of waiting for a open window to submit ideas and manuscripts.  

[DarkElf27]

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?

Indeed, it seems the best ways into that narrow niche is either to enter their annual writing contests or to get developed as a published author elsewhere on other topics, and then come back and hit them up.

Ah fair enough. I remember the time when it used to be a case of waiting for a open window to submit ideas and manuscripts.

For Black Library specifically, or publishers in general?  

[Angels Sonata]

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?

Indeed, it seems the best ways into that narrow niche is either to enter their annual writing contests or to get developed as a published author elsewhere on other topics, and then come back and hit them up.

Ah fair enough. I remember the time when it used to be a case of waiting for a open window to submit ideas and manuscripts.

For Black Library specifically, or publishers in general?

Well it used to be Black Library, I'm not too sure on other publishers. Now it's a case of sending a short writing sample to Black Library. They stopped using publishing windows due to the amount of entries they receive.  

[DarkElf27]

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?

Indeed, it seems the best ways into that narrow niche is either to enter their annual writing contests or to get developed as a published author elsewhere on other topics, and then come back and hit them up.

Ah fair enough. I remember the time when it used to be a case of waiting for a open window to submit ideas and manuscripts.

For Black Library specifically, or publishers in general?

Well it used to be Black Library, I'm not too sure on other publishers. Now it's a case of sending a short writing sample to Black Library. They stopped using publishing windows due to the amount of entries they receive.

Have you had the opportunity to send such a writing sample in the past? I've always had an interest in writing in the 40k universe, but I've never seriously pursued anything with Black Library.  

[Angels Sonata]

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

Someone mentioned writing for Black Library?

Indeed, it seems the best ways into that narrow niche is either to enter their annual writing contests or to get developed as a published author elsewhere on other topics, and then come back and hit them up.

Ah fair enough. I remember the time when it used to be a case of waiting for a open window to submit ideas and manuscripts.

For Black Library specifically, or publishers in general?

Well it used to be Black Library, I'm not too sure on other publishers. Now it's a case of sending a short writing sample to Black Library. They stopped using publishing windows due to the amount of entries they receive.

Have you had the opportunity to send such a writing sample in the past? I've always had an interest in writing in the 40k universe, but I've never seriously pursued anything with Black Library.

I've put in a few stories to Black Library in the past, but never got anywhere from it which is a shame. I might give it another go in the new year.  

[DarkElf27]

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

For Black Library specifically, or publishers in general?

Well it used to be Black Library, I'm not too sure on other publishers. Now it's a case of sending a short writing sample to Black Library. They stopped using publishing windows due to the amount of entries they receive.

Have you had the opportunity to send such a writing sample in the past? I've always had an interest in writing in the 40k universe, but I've never seriously pursued anything with Black Library.

I've put in a few stories to Black Library in the past, but never got anywhere from it which is a shame. I might give it another go in the new year.

How was your experience with their staff? Did they get back to you at all, give you any pointers, or just more of a "we regret to inform you" deal?  

[Angels Sonata]

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

Angels Sonata

DarkElf27

For Black Library specifically, or publishers in general?

Well it used to be Black Library, I'm not too sure on other publishers. Now it's a case of sending a short writing sample to Black Library. They stopped using publishing windows due to the amount of entries they receive.

Have you had the opportunity to send such a writing sample in the past? I've always had an interest in writing in the 40k universe, but I've never seriously pursued anything with Black Library.

I've put in a few stories to Black Library in the past, but never got anywhere from it which is a shame. I might give it another go in the new year.

How was your experience with their staff? Did they get back to you at all, give you any pointers, or just more of a "we regret to inform you" deal?

I never really talked to their staff which was a shame. It was all done through emails, and I never got a response which did suck a bit, but it was to be expected seeing as they said on the website that they didn't give feedback to individual stories that didn't make the cut.