Sentences with phrase «way out of the slush pile»

If you haven't read the first two yet, you might want to check out # 1: How to Avoid Twitter - Fritter and Facebook - Fail and # 2 How to Blog Your Way Out of the Slush Pile and onto the Bestseller List.

For more in my «Social Media Secrets» here are links to Part 1: How to Avoid Twitter - Fritter and Facebook Fail, Part 2: How to Blog Your Way Out of the Slush Pile, and Part 3: What Should an Author Blog About?Here's the «secret» about social media that marketers don't tell you: it should be used for making friends, not direct sales.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

Not exact matches

As you may have learned elsewhere on my site, in articles such as Getting Out of the Slush Pile, it can take years to get published in the traditional way, and many never get published at all.

Open Books is reaching out to authors who are not interested in clawing their way to the top of the slush pile.

But publishers in general saw them as a great way to 1) get rid of slush readers and the pile, and 2) get out of the awkward personal contact with people you're screwing over.

Sometimes you get tired of being outmaneuvered In some senses, what Amazon launched yesterday with Amazon Encore is neither that amazing a project, after all there have been several small - press or self - published titles taken on board by large publishers as I've mentioned on this blog before, nor is it even that innovative, Authonomy is at its core a way to tap the self published and slush - piled manuscripts out there in the wild.

You'll still need a way to get out of the agent slush pile, which can be done by meeting them at conferences.