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Originally Posted by kcmay
In 2005 I attended Viable Paradise workshop. Two of the instructors are long-time editors with Tor, one of the largest and best publishers of SF and fantasy books. They said again and again that the slush pile is filled with mediocrity and that if you write a good book, it will get read. Great writers truly stand out.
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I think that is a dubious proposition given the situation as described by the piece Neil linked to earlier in this thread in this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...96&postcount=7
It is, perhaps, plausible to argue that those books which emerge from the slush pile are 'good'* but given the sheer magnitude of the items in the pile I don't see how it is possible to think that
every 'good' book emerges.
*'Good' in quotes because given some of what gets published I'm not sure that's the correct term.