Doing Time in the Slush

I think that every prospective author should do time as a slush reader — a volunteer slush reader, in fact.

This sounds like a fate worse than death for most of us. If you are an aspiring writer who thinks that this could be fun, then you are one of the ones whomustdo this. Because while you might be convinced that all writers deserve a chance at being published, a quick month or two of reading slush for any publishing company (assuming they even do slush anymore) will quickly correct this mis...