SlushPile Hell

Filed under: The Publishing Biz — joy at 7:38 am on Thursday, June 17, 2010

I rather like SlushPile Hell, in which “a grumpy literary agent wades through query fails” by putting up short samples from bad queries. Snark is tiresome and mocking bad writing gets old, but this person isn’t overdoing it, and some of his/her comments are actually funny. Sample:

Do you ever get the feeling that we are all machines being controlled by someone or something beyond our control?

Katie Holmes, I’m just a literary agent. I can’t help you with your husband issues.

More here.

(Via Galleycat)

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