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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
Unknown last name? The URL of the site wasn't a clue? The author of the famous and infamous Slushkiller essay is Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who at the time she wrote it was an editor at Tor, one of the few remaining publishers who accepted (and I believe still does) unagented work.
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Thank you so much for filling in the blank. I still have no idea who Teresa Hayden is, but I'll try to remember her name. I need to find a few SlushDivers to help me fish my manuscripts out of the gutter. Could Terry lend a helping hand?
Ardeegee and others wonders why avid readers, with supposedly good taste, would want to sample from the Slush pile? Same reason that Hugh Grant got involved with a street walker. Something is/was missing from his life. He needed some excitement. Who knows? Honestly, the number of tier one writers on this planet is miniscule. While I wait for V.S. Naipaul or J. M. Coetzee to write their next book, what am I supposed to read? Why not the smorgasbord of books- semi-pro & amateur novels from Smashwords? Where on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, do the smash works fall? Umm, 3 - 5. But I give these men and women an A+ for effort. None will ever win the Nobel prize for literature, but then again, neither will I. You cannot eat caviar every day of the week. Enjoy the beans and bark, every now and then. Laugh at life's bad jokes, and don't think the sky is falling all around you every time you read a bad book. (Personally, I fall asleep whenever I read Toni Morrison- so, if any of you feel insulted by that, take a powder).