The other day I mentioned that the links that come my way sometimes mesh all together in one topic. Today's topic is the slush pile. And we've all been there and until we can convince a court to change our names to Stephen King its someplace we'll probably always find ourselves. Our stories that is. With a hat tip to Victor Banis on the SMFS list, Anton Gully in the comments of the previous post, an email from Michael Bracken, and a link I found at Charles Tan's blog -- I give you the secrets of the slush pile.
"The View from the Slushpile" by Kevin J. Anderson http://www.wordfire.com/kjablog/?p=596
From the blog "Musings of an Aussie Writer" we have "Do Not Do This" http://musingsofanaussiewriter.blogspot.com/2010/01/do-not-do-this.html There are also a few other posts here that might be of interest as the gentleman, Brenton Tomlinson, posting is putting together an anthology.
Douglas Cohen, editor of "Realms of Fantasy", gives us a look-see into his process of working through the slush pile of submissions before passing his selections on to the publisher. http://douglascohen.livejournal.com/226603.html
And finally an article about the novel slushpiles http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703414504575001271351446274.html
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