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Originally Posted by ApK
What the heck is "the slushpile."  |
It's the traditional term for the mass of generally unsolicited manuscripts that agents, editors, etc. have to wade through to pick out the things which seem vaguely worthy of passing on to others further up the potential actual publication totem pole, see
Wikipedia for sort-of-details.
George Alec Effinger had a really funny short story about "Tales from the Slushpile" in his
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