Sentences with phrase «of the slush pile for»

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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.

ETA just for further clarification of your writing: «There is an enormous slush pile on Amazon, I never denied its existence.»

How to avoid the slush pile is a question often asked because it is indeed an annoying and unnecessary great waste of time when so much garbage is pushed, but for which it seems there is currently no expedient solution.

While Wattpad has been likened in the past to becoming the new «slush pile» due to the high number of stories and authors that have been picked up by traditional publishers and have even reached the top of the bestseller lists in several countries, one of the lesser known innovations is the amount of Wattpad content that has been adapted for film, including serialized television shows and feature - length films, particularly in foreign markets.

My take is that the «book» shouldn't even be published but the reality is that this is bad news for readers, in spite of the bargain basement prices they currently enjoy, they are flooded with what is called, in the publishing world, the slush - pile.

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

If the purpose of the venture is to monetize your slush pile and that slush pile receives ten of thousands of submissions (Kristin from Pub Rants reported 38,000 queries in 2009 for her agency — does Harlequin get more or less?)

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Australian mother and small business owner Rebecca James has sold world rights to her first two young adult novels for major bucks, going from mom to millionaire overnight after her manuscript was pulled out of the slush pile by a U.K. agent.

If the book happened to be chosen and accepted from the slush pile of manuscripts, the author (in reality the agent since old school publishers don't really like to interact with the actual author) was notified, and small check was sent as an «advance» for what the publisher hoped to at least earn out that advance.

Even Neal Pollack, a New York Times journalist who wrote an article in support of self - publishing, said he wouldn't recommend self - publishing for a first time author, as «a self - published book [by a new author] is almost certainly going to end up on the digital slush pile, with fewer readers than the average blog post.»

As for the gatekeeper, the acquisition editors and the agents, that model imploded a long time ago when the publishers basically outsourced the slush pile to the agents, thus turning them into freelance employees of the publisher and away from being the advocate for writers and their work.

Having thirty «commercially» published books to my credit, I'm now entering the indie waters, but finding, to my dismay, a huge mess of every editor's slush pile for the taking on the big A. I take the time and pay the money to edit my work, and I wish others would do the same.

Essentially, this active readership for self - published books has agreed to go through America's slush pile, and they (rightly) expect that at least some of their labor should be subsidized by lower prices and the occasional e-book giveaway.

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»).

Definitions: The slush pile is «a stack of unsolicited manuscripts — usually pushed off to the side or languishing in a corner — that have been sent to a publishing company for consideration.

Inkubate, a new approach to the slush pile, is a website that will give authors an access portal to upload any or all of their manuscripts for free with the knowledge that agents and publishers will be scouring the site's files looking for great literary content; for a fee, that is, as the agents and publishers will be charged a subscription fee to be allowed to peruse the manuscripts.

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

Add in an overall lack of knowledge about marketing books, designing covers, formatting, and most of all, editing, and you'll simply find that much of the slush that has traditionally piled up on agents» and editors» desks is now being e-pubbed for your reading «pleasure.»

The indie slush pile can be found in the million - plus rankings on Amazon, the books that sold a handful of copies in their lifetimes and effectively ceased to exist unless someone is taking the time to look for them.

Finding worthwhile stuff there is a lot of word - of - mouth and skimming the free samples, but it's a hard slug — hard enough to me to feel sympathy for all those slush - pile readers of old.

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

Another reason for the demise of the slush pile is the fear of being accused of and having to defend against allegations of stealing someone's work.

This would cut down tremendously on the size of slush piles, improving the attitudes of of agents, and making it easier for those with a clue to submit.

Agents and publishers take note of winning and short - listed entries for such competitions, in a way that they rarely pay attention to the slush pile, as I've written about elsewhere.

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.

I truly believe when one of us climbs out of the slush pile — stronger for the effort — and achieves our goal we ALL should shout it from the rooftops (pardon the cliche).

Here's an example of an NYC literary agency called The Bent Agency; I came across them several months ago via Twitter when they were looking for slush pile interns.

The fact is — and I have monitored slush piles at 3 different publishers for 20 years — not much of it is presented as publishable.

Most aspiring authors were searching for literary agents and submitting their manuscripts with hopes they'd make it out of the slush pile.

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.

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.»

For hybrid solution, the depressing «slush pile» era of yore that blew many fine works into oblivion has long passed.

If you're a would - be traditionally published author and have not yet been published (you're «in the slush pile» waiting for the Angel of the Lord to show your book to the right literary agent), you will not be asked how much you're making from your books — you are making nothing, you have not yet been published.