Who is the Slush Pile reader?

[Brenda G. Potash]

Originally Posted by Drachen Jager

We know. And J.K. Rowling was rejected many times on Harry Potter. In fact the editor who ended up publishing her had already thrown her manuscript in the reject pile. Only his daughter, who liked to poke her nose in, happened to get her hands on it.

Almost everything good was rejected somewhere before it was accepted. C'est la vie.

That's very true, I don't think you can find any author (excluding the super famous of course) that wouldn't get their MS rejected at least a dozen times before someone sees in it what they see.

I mean, even bad books get published sometimes, someone out there is bound to like your work, eventually. As long as you have the decency to get it edited, you might have a chance, maybe. There's nothing more worth to be thrown in the trash pile than something crawling with grammar errors. You don't have to be great at grammar, just find someone who is and pay them, or beg them.

[Old Hack]

Paying to have your work edited prior to submission is really not needed. Just write the best book that you can, and revise it as well as you can.

[juniper]

Originally Posted by Brenda G. Potash

Who knows, maybe I'll make a great librarian, I do like books and they get paid well.

And Multnomah County has a great library system. Rah! Go be a librarian (if that is your dream) and write on your days off.

and Brenda.