Tips From the Slush Pile: Known Mythologies You’ve created a beautiful new world with a gorgeous magic system and deep characters that are gonna make your readers *feel all the things* with their struggles. But in the process of immersing your reader in this fantastic world, you gave your characters the names of Greek gods […]

Tips from the Slush Pile! (Because it’s been a while.) (And also because I am annoyed.) Let’s talk rejections. Rejections are hard. They feel personal, like a mini attack on your dreams. But rejections are also a huge part of this industry. Doesn’t make it easier. Rejections are still hard. Celebrate your rejections. You are […]

The Shadow Mountain Slush Pile opens soon so I thought I’d better do another… TIPS FROM THE SLUSH PILE! Shadow Mountain recently made the change to limit submissions to 50 pages. You’ll notice this does not include a word count. Yeah, so did some people submitting. Your 50 pages should have: – 1 inch margins […]

Tips From the Slush Pile! Y’all. You know how I feel about Prologues, right? That they’re usually an excuse to infodump and don’t actually benefit the story. Just got a submission that not only has an Prologue but an Epigraph. **Now with more infodumping!** Woot. Please do not do this to me. I want to […]