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Oh, fuck.
Steve Jackson Games has rejected Outrim Void. They're buying out my contract. This I didn't need this week.
I'm getting about $160 in the buyout, but the payments were supposed to be my Oregon money! Damnit, I need that vacation! At this point I'm wondering if Ground Forces was a bloody fluke, that the only reason it was any good was the fact it was a subject that I knew intimately.
At this point I'm not sure if I can write anything else, and I like writing! What the hell do I do now?
I'm getting about $160 in the buyout, but the payments were supposed to be my Oregon money! Damnit, I need that vacation! At this point I'm wondering if Ground Forces was a bloody fluke, that the only reason it was any good was the fact it was a subject that I knew intimately.
At this point I'm not sure if I can write anything else, and I like writing! What the hell do I do now?
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It's not a fluke if it gets printed.
It was a fluke for me to get my work accepted and paid for so readily when I did it. It might even be a fluke that it hasn't been printed and put on shelves yet.
But your work was printed and put on the shelves and THAT, my friend, is proof enough that you've got what it takes.
SJG has a trend of being well funded for some time, then in dire need of more funding for reasons that escape me. They're probably going through the second part of that trend right now, just like every other industry in this wonderful new economy of ours.
Take some time, put some ideas together, and go pitch 'em at DOJ or someone else. The very fact that you've got a book on the shelves will provide you with "foot in the door" syndrome, if nothing else.
-JEM