Sentences with phrase «of slush pile good»

Publishers run out of slush pile good books, and publish derivative stuff, because the market is buying everything as fast as it hits the shelf.

Not exact matches

Thins the slush pile for those of us who would rather put our keesters in the chair until our work is either good enough or market - friendly enough to be published traditionally.

While there was never a feeling that either the self - publishing or the traditional models will die away any time soon, Anderson made a vital statement about the status of authors: «The slush pile is visible now and the best rise to the top.»

The impression I get is that plenty of good books have alway stalled in the trad - pub slush piles and querying processes, too.

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»).

Publishers and editors need to do a better job of finding debut gems in the slush pile without looking for the sainted endorsement.

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...

Although good news rarely comes from the slush pile, we can find many lessons about the craft of writing buried within it.

One of those ways is through query contests, an awesome new trend that has cropped up recently to allow aspiring authors a better chance at getting their work in front of an agent, and not sitting in the slush pile.

It deserves to sit in its very own electronic slush pile of the internet, where it can be found and enjoyed by thousands of people (soon to be tens of thousands if things continue to go well).

In 2011, Amazon became a publisher, more best - selling authors sprouted out of what once was the slush pile and publishing companies migrated business from print to digital at an accelerated rate.

Nevertheless, I gave blogger.com the old college try, but eventually, other responsibilities won out over my blog, partly because using blogger was so hard, and my blogger.com blog became yet another statistic in the growing slush pile of blogs that begin with the best of intentions and then fade out slowly over time.

This does not guarantee that your book or short story will be sold, of course, but a well - formatted manuscript is easier to read and has a better chance of rising above the slush pile than one that looks unprofessional.

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.

There are no «gatekeepers,» no companies tossing the manuscript into the slush pile, as well as the «lack of a professional team» ensuring that the book is refined and polished until it shines.

But it does means you move out of the acquisitions editor slush pile for good.

Some authors feel a sense of inferiority and mention the slush pile to feel better about themselves.

He said a new author has a better chance of his / her manuscript being plucked from a slush pile and read than an agent reading it.

By definition, writers in the slush pile have not... gone through the thought process, or done the legwork, necessary to put a well - targeted pitch into the mailbox of a specific person, they have trusted to luck or perhaps the dazzling quality of their work, or they simply haven't thought about it one way or the other.

Self - publishing will allow very GOOD books to be published that would not have been publishable in the old days, but it also allows the equivalent of an entire slush pile to see daylight.

Well, I don't think the odds are quite that bad, for self - published authors anyway (although I have no way of quantifying the number of writers stuck in traditional publishing's «slush pile» so don't know on that side).

The «unutterable rubbish» claim is brought back to attention for a reason that it has become painstaking for readers to find a good quality book among the slush pile of «auto - generated books.»

New unheard - of author Robert Galbraith's Cuckoo Calling at first count was not doing so well getting noticed by anyone — including those agents / editors confident enough to admit they rejected the book in the slush pile.