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 ::::What about [[Equilibrium (novel)]]? I'm not sure how far along the novel actually got while Forward was shopping it around to Virgin and then BBC Books, but it was certainly completed at some point since Forward released it online. Perhaps there's discussion of that novel in some DWM issue, but I don't have the desire to search through a bunch of back issues to look. [[User:Pluto2|Pluto2]][[User talk:Pluto2|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:21, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
+That's not particularly indicative of anything. [[Smoking Mirror (novel)]] is in a similar situation. Some of this discussion already occurred at [[Talk:List of unproduced stories]]. The relevant paragraph is from Scrooge:
+::The distinction is also only really applicable for TV — cases of a book or audio being greenlit only to be cancelled partway through "production" are so vanishingly rare that I can think of only [[Campaign (novel)|one “Unproduced” novel fitting that description]]. Nearly all the interesting non-TV "stories that almost were, had influence on later productions, but were never completed themselves" never made it past the ''pitch'', because "production"-wise, much more of the work on a novel is done ''before'' the author officially brings a pitch to the publisher.
+I think Mentor might count, given the comments made about it, and we know that Tardis Team Diaries 3 and 4 were planned, if not commissioned/written. So we have somewhere between 1 and 5 stories that count under this metric, them being ''officially green-lit'' and then ''failing to materialize'', for one reason for another, at least that I can find. (Maybe you also count the Paul Cornell novel where 7 regenerates, since it was discussed with the [[Peter Darvill-Evans]]? I wouldn't.) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:45, 5 March 2023 (UTC)