Sentences with phrase «getting out of the slush pile»

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.

Wade through the slush pile with me, and you may find out how to increase the chance that your manuscript will be one of those that get pulled out (Footnote: What does getting out of the slush pile mean?)

It is the very thng the is the prime paradox, do we go to a literary agent to get a larger traditional publsiher to look when most agents... well don't have time to get out of the slush pile...

My cover letter and my writing credentials somehow got me out of the slush pile.

The Pubslush name is derived from its founders», Hellen and Amanda Barbara, mission to give authors the opportunity to get out of the slush pile, prove their talent and market viability, and successfully publish quality books.

Not exact matches

Traditional publishers aren't scouring the Top 100 lists as the new slush piles as much, movie moguls aren't optioning as many indie books as The New Hotness, word has gotten out that you actually have to bring a ladder to reach the boughs of the money tree.

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

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.

In essence, they want to farm out the responsibility of the slush pile to the public and the most popular manuscripts will get a traditional publishing contract.

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.

In order to level the playing field and have a true comparison, you need to look at everything that gets submitted to the traditional machine — that means all the work that never makes it out of the slush pile — and compare that to all the self - published e-books on Amazon and elsewhere.

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

As for the percentages of books that get deals, remember that the manuscripts go out to 20 or so agents each, so you see a lot of duplicates across the various slush piles.

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.