Bad Credits Will Not Help You Get Published.

My friend Ann and I have been running the magazine PodCastle for the past two years and reading slush for it for almost three. I'm nominally the editor and she's the associate editor, but we chose to work together because, well, we work together well, and as a consequence our tasks often bleed into each other. She picks up the slushy slush when it comes in and filters out the stuff I need to see — or, sometimes, I go and do that myself. I have the final say on what gets published, but her...