An indignity the pair did not manage to remedy was that no TSR fiction writer had their name on the spine of the book while Lorraine Williams was CEO. Management was concerned about how the novels would be shelved in bookstores, so they wanted the line promoted over the writer. But for a writer not to see their name on the side of the book they’d birthed from their own blood, bone, and sinew could be wounding. Lowder said the lack of recognition was “a reminder of what management really valued—the brand, not the people creating the content.”
