Call me stupid, but:
What are your Magery and Scribing skill levels?
Just curious since, I have what I consider a "den father" mage in training. Yep, he's not good at all for combat, but my goal for him was to punish my guildmates with magic (for Resist training) and then possibly scribe and sell spell books for coin. That and be a GM alchemist someday. But, he's waaaay on the back burner for skill developement at this time.
Although, he does have a pretty high Meditation skill... Hmmmm... Decisions, decisions....