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Originally Posted by Andy Farman
Three years between failed submissions is an awfully long time by the way. After all is said and done the Guild mark should, in my humble opinion, only guarantee that the book has been proofed for punctuation, grammar, typos, and to a limited extent that any requirement to suspend reality is minimal. It shouldn't aim to be a filter for potential best sellers. Remember that Harry Potter was rescued from a selectors bin.
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Originally Posted by crich70
There would also (I would think) need to be a procedure to follow if someone had a grievance against another member of the guild. And maybe a procedure to appeal if someone is probationary or rejected in order to not seem too strict. Otherwise someone might raise the claim of elitism or something.
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Three years was a number I pulled off the top of my head. Numbers can be adjusted.
On the idea of the appeal process, one of the things that came to mind was timing it so when someone got another chance to apply, they'd have had a complete turnover in the board of evaluators, so they wouldn't be facing the same people. You can only serve one term of a certain number of years and then have to wait a longer period before you can serve another. So one board might be overly elitist, while another the opposite.