Editing Black Library (section)

==The Quality Issue==
As mentioned above BL books sometimes suffer from a quality issue but this is not doing it justice. Part of the problem is the mix of talent. Some of the writers are experienced and skilled professional novelists. Others are ex-staff members and friends of GW staff who happened to be in the room at the time. Some of them are both.

While some books are either very well written or perfectly decent reads, others are pure trashy slash and burn books to fill your need to read about beheadings or copious amounts of blood and what little plot is present exists just to satisfy your bloodlust.

Such a state may be perplexing at first but you have to understand the BL often releases books in cooperation with GW army releases. There is a new Eldar update? Better bring out a novel about the Eldar then! GW often have a few army updates planned in advance, plently of time get a new novel rolling in time for the army release. Other books are sometimes bought out to satisfy the needs of fans of one of the more popular factions (space marines for example) for a story about their favourite warriors.

BL understands though that there are fans of just the fluff (such as the people that read this wiki) and so demand a little more than just the normal bloods and guts sort of writing. So they bring in competent writers to draft some stories with actual weight and dignity.

A good way to judge the quality of a read is by the author. Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Sandy Mitchell occupy the leading pantheon of great 40k writers and you'd be hard pressed to find anything by them to be half baked. Well, your mileage may vary on McNeill's more recent work. John French, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and Christ Wraight have ascended to the pantheon in recent years, though AD-B can be very polarising around these parts.

At the other end of the scale you've got C.S.Goto, who writes very compelling toilet paper.

Adding further to the debate is how by all intents and purposes the writers at GeeDubs commit virtually every single lazy mistake seen in [[Science Fantasy]], from having no fucking idea about laws of physics and astronomy even after using the excuse of the Warp or sufficiently advanced aliens, to hamfisting [[Cretacia|how ecology]] [[Hiveworld|or demographics work]] while making [[Vraks|supposedly critical campaigns something smaller than a contemporary World War]], while this could be excused in some works in order to drive an important plot point or bring for brilliant writting, Black Library has a tendency to be terrible for the sheer sake of making things [[Grimdark]], with the end result being a "Too Bleak, Stopped Caring"; some fans may argue this is in order to give a sense of horror much needed to the setting but after a couple of books it becomes obvious for most readers too often Black Library writers even fall short of achieving this, to the point [[Delta Green|other gaming]] [[World of Darkness|companies]] actually advice how you need to work to always keep a sense of the unknown and novelty unless you get another "oh right, another planet eaten by Tyranids".