Slush for the Rest of Us
Did you know about Authonomy.com? It’s a book-based social network founded in 2008 by HarperCollins. It’s essentially a self-selecting slush-pile, where users upload their manuscripts and then rate each others. Then HarperCollins editors read the top five manuscripts each month.
Quite frankly, this blogger didn’t know about it, and found out by reading an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about “the death of the slush pile,” which, in fact, in the small press and literary world, is far from dead, but who cares about that, right?
Anyway, here’s what WSJ has to say about the site:
About 10,000 manuscripts have been loaded so far and HarperCollins has bought four.
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