Sentences with phrase «experience of the slush pile»

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However, I had to experience what it was like coming up through the slush pile (the term publishers and agents give to unsolicited manuscripts, of which they get tons every single day).

The fact that 98 % of manuscripts go down the slush pile should be a good enough indicator for any budding author that traditional publishers are only looking for money - minting machines (or what they believe will be a money - minting machines based on their «experience»).