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  • But your answer makes sense, both in why publishers would rather require an agent than hire their own slush-pile readers, and even with some bonus reasons for how an as-yet-unpublished author benefits from an agent beyond "you need one to get a publisher to read your manuscript".

    msagara: Answering a question about agents msagara 2009

  • Unlike many previous conventions, I didn't get to bring a slush-pile of unwanted sketches back with me, but I reconstructed this one from memory on the plane home.

    Will Sketch for Chips Roger Langridge 2009

  • Unlike many previous conventions, I didn't get to bring a slush-pile of unwanted sketches back with me, but I reconstructed this one from memory on the plane home.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Roger Langridge 2009

  • This "mode" requires a free block of time with no interruptions and distractions, and I recognize that that can be difficult for slush-pile/"favors" material that you hit when you have a spare moment.

    I Will Not Read Your F'ing Script Lou Anders 2009

  • He worked as slush-pile reader for New York-based magazines, and at night he wrote his own short stories — things that did not often advance past the slush pile.

    Archive 2010-07-11 Bill Crider 2010

  • So the fact that the entries should be previously published means that the publishers act like slush-pile managers.

    Man "Asian" Literary Prize: Restructured 2010

  • Yes, I see you comment about 'being rejected from the slush-pile' otherwise.

    Realms of Fantasy’s All-Women Issue jimhines 2010

  • Before Markson became the author of what he terms "semi-nonfictional semi-fictions," he was a struggling writer with a master's degree from Columbia, a couple of years 'worth of reading slush-pile entries at Dell and Lion Books (two of the top pulp-fiction publishers of the postwar era), and several novels nowhere near completion.

    Archive 2007-01-28 Bill Crider 2007

  • Someone's sure to accuse me of being a slush-pile half empty kind of person . . .

    Come Learn From the Experts! If You Haven't Learned Your Lesson Already Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Publishing houses give different, made-up editor names to different marketing sources, so they know where the author who sent that slush-pile manuscript got their contact info.

    Publishing Myths Contest! Editorial Anonymous 2009

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