TFTSP: New Slush Tallies and Cliches

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Tips from the Slush Pile! (aren’t you excited?) So I get to tag all new submissions with their genre, make sure the files open correctly, basic housekeeping stuff. We opened our slush pile for one week and received 186 submissions so I had my work cut out for me. About a third of the way in, […]

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TFTSP: Greetings and Salutations

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In honor of the slush pile opening this week, I’m giving you a Tip from Slush Pile: Please, please, please, for the love of all things chocolate-covered, double-check your query salutation line. If you personalized your query with a real person’s name, great! Just make sure you are using the *correct* name for this particular […]

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