Sentences with word «slushpile»

Yes, there are some very talented works in slushpiles that don't get bought because of the gatekeeping system.

to get folks to send the entire slushpile to Kindle yet.

Those who are substandard, or who publish for fun, will find their titles within a vast, recognized stratum that will be understood to be «the starting point; the amateur slushpile», and there will be several layers above, all heading for the point of the pyramid, if the author wishes to climb.

The hordes of agents and editors who used to scour slushpiles and sift through query letters were all trained to know what the marketing departments were looking for, to the point that if your manuscript didn't fit a market niche or pigeon hole it had little or no chance of attracting attention.

All those traditional publishing complaints about the self - publishing / online writing slushpile rather get thrown into perspective by this development.

Does Amazon become filled with substandard slushpile novels that in the past would never have made it past the first reader at a publisher?

I fear scam artists capitalizing on the endless digital slushpile, promising to direct people to good books for a fee and instead doing what any search engine could do.

The company which has best capitalised on the self - publishing opportunity and which is still, in the minds of a huge number of authors, their «friend», is presiding over a system that is looking suspiciously rigged: Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) looks like a self - organising slushpile for their publishing programme; when will KDP authors realise they are second - class citizens?

The agents, the slushpile readers, the acquisitions assistants all have the same goal in mind: they are looking for publishable books.

If you want to claim your self - pubbed work makes you better than anybody else in the slushpile, you'd better have some numbers to back it up.

SFWA authors know they can easily be replaced by the next ten newbies off the slushpile, but by appealing to the publishers on an ideological basis, they promote their members as being agreeable to the political zietgiest the publishers wish to project.

In 2001, I got a little novel called Dhampir through the slushpile (without an agent) and onto the desk of an editor at Ace / Roc.

Now, I think the slushpile has a lot to offer self - published writers.

The slushpile teaches you patience, teaches you you're not ready yet, you need to work on your craft, on your characters, your plot, your storytelling techniques.

Just wait until more and more talented writers forego the slushpile altogether and skip straight to self - publishing.

The problem isn't entering the slushpile, it's staying there too long.

No, I'd tell writers NOT to forgo the slushpile altogether, but to learn from it, and THEN TO MOVE ON out of it.

I'm going to comment on one line: «Just wait until more and more talented writers forego the slushpile altogether and skip straight to self - publishing.»

But the days of hoping to make it through editors» slushpiles and expecting hefty contracts are long gone now.