Sentences with phrase «came out of those slush piles»

Whether most clients are coming out of the slush pile or if networking at workshops and conventions is important for getting an agent.

From Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, Suzanne Collins to Stieg Larsson as examples, their manuscripts didn't come out of a slush pile.

Not exact matches

(Unlike trad publishers, though, you're rather committed to accepting any books that come out of your dedicated on - staff writer — you can't simply turn down a book and go to the slush pile.

Having read the thread and seen his lack of understanding of the process, of the constraints Baen operates under (which are kind of known when it comes to distribution) as well as him not knowing about the authors who have been picked out of the slush pile or through the self - publishing route, I believe you are right.

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.