• In publishing, a slush pile is a set of unsolicited query letters or manuscripts that have either been directly sent to a publisher by an author, or which...
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  • account or a reserve fund Slush hydrogen, a combination of liquid hydrogen and solid hydrogen Slush pile, unsolicited manuscripts Slush powder, polymers that...
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  • "In Praise of the New York Times Spelling Bee". Medium. "Slush Pile Magazine". Slush Pile Magazine. "5 Questions with Crossword Constructor Joanne Sullivan"...
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    Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts" (26.1) Poetry by Marya Hornbacher at Slush Pile Magazine Fiction by Marya Hornbacher at Slush Pile Magazine...
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  • Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. Park offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured...
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  • April 27, 2009. Rosman, Kathleen (January 22, 2010). "The Death of the Slush Pile". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved January 27, 2015...
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  • person paid by a publisher or book sales club to read manuscripts from the slush pile, and to advise their employers as to quality and marketability of the...
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    distinguished himself by discovering an unheralded script he found in a slush pile of neglected screenplays. Recognizing its quality, commerciality and uniqueness...
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  • my pink furry pen. I finally found an agent who picked it up out of a slush pile because it was on pink paper. It went out to studios and publishing houses...
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    Mary Kirchoff, then working for TSR's book department in reviewing the slush pile of unsolicited submissions, did not like the story much, but did like...
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    letter columns would have an advantage in terms of over-the-transom, or "slush pile," contributions, by being more likely to be read before the submissions...
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    as his working-class single mother. She had found the script in the "slush pile" at Orion Pictures, and explained that for her debut film she "wanted...
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  • Sons. The unsolicited manuscript for Counterparts had been pulled from a slush pile by a literary agent and forwarded to editors at Putnam. Kirkus Reviews...
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  • process that followed the arrival of the manuscript in the publisher's slush pile. The Baker's Boy achieved bestseller status and was followed by two sequels...
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    Frank, pulling it out of the rejection pile. Jones recalled that she came across Frank's work in a slush pile of material that had been rejected by other...
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    Years later, director Rob Cohen recounted how he found the script in the slush pile when working as a reader for Mike Medavoy, a future studio head, but then...
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  • academy. They present their literary aesthetic in their communal lit-zine, Slush Pile. A quote from Karl Wenclas, the organization's Publicity Director: "The...
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    assistant named Truman Capote. Capote picked the Bradbury manuscript from a slush pile, which led to its publication. "Homecoming" won a place in the O. Henry...
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  • August 15, 2009. Rosman, Kathleen (January 22, 2010). "The Death of the Slush Pile". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved January 27,...
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  • Diary, pulling it out of the rejection pile. Jones recalled that she came across Frank's work in a slush pile of material that had been rejected by other...
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    Podcast Hosted by Say Hi To Your Mom RIP Say Hi Interview with Say Hi at Battle of the Midwestern Housewives Interview with Say Hi in Slush Pile Magazine...
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  • novel, Slush Pile, in June 2014. In the following August, Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National aired, Ian Shadwell's Slush Pile: a satirical...
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  • agency that Kuttner picked Leigh Brackett's early manuscripts off the slush pile; it was under his tutelage that she sold her first story (to John W. Campbell...
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    Allied editor Vin Sullivan pulled a Siegel/Shuster creation from the slush pile and used it as the cover feature (but only as a backup story) in Action...
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  • beginning as an assistant editor, which included the task of reading slush pile manuscripts for Henry Simon. Many editors stick to one area of interest...
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    film and hired Kubrick and Harris to develop film stories from MGM's slush pile of scripts and purchased novels. Finding nothing they liked, Kubrick remembered...
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  • at The Frost Place. He is one of the hosts of Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile, a podcast that puts an editorial meeting on the air. He is one of the...
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    2008 to 2015. The website offered an alternative to the traditional "slush pile" approach for handling unsolicited manuscripts sent to a publisher with...
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  • publisher Avon Books. Avon editor Nancy Coffey pulled the manuscript from the slush pile and liked what she read. Avon purchased the publication rights from Woodiwiss...
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    to his writing he has worked as "a bookseller, small press publisher, 'slush pile' reader for Galaxy magazine, medical and technical editor and writer,...
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