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by Brett Sanger
(editor @ fudgefactor.org)
In last month's editorial I mentioned that Fudge Factor would be undergoing some appearance changes. You've now seen the first of those changes.
As I mention in every monthly pleading for submissions, Fudge Factor is nothing without the authors that write and submit our content. We had one reader (Malagigi) a few months ago who wrote to us and said _"I noticed you don't have the authors names next to their articles on the contents page. Since the main coin you're paying them with is publicity, I think that's a serious oversight."
This reader was perfectly correct. (Thanks, Malagigi) So we've implemented two changes based on that feedback: Authors are now mentioned on the main issue page, and each author gets an author page that links to all of their Fudge Factor articles. We will be requesting short bios and home page links from our authors, but they will not be required. Only this month's authors are converted at the time of this writing, but we'll be going back and filling in all of Fudge Factor's authors over the course of the month.
This is a service to our authors, an attempt to be generous with our coin of publicity, but it is also a service to our readers. Fudge Factor has long maintained that our success depends on sorting through the submissions, communicating with the authors, and arranging the material to supply our readers with quality material. If you like an author's work, it is our duty to make it easier to find more of that work.
So now, having seen how we treasure our authors, don't you feel the urge to circulate your work? As covered in the Submission Guidelines, authors retain all copyrights to their material. Fudge Factor can be a place to get some free publication credits, a place to share a nifty idea you use in your game, a place to offer material that wasn't snatched by a paying publisher, or just a place to kick out some ideas that only fit in the Fudge community.
Our authors are our substance. Don't you want to be a part of a fudge factor?
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