SlushPile Hell

One grumpy literary agent, a sea of query fails, and other publishing nonsense.

Jan 10 2011

Not that I would compare myself to Hemingway, but if you read my novel, you’ll see that it’s as brilliantly simple as The Old Man and the Sea, as poetic as The Sun Also Rises, and as epic as For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Well, at least you didn’t compare yourself to Hemingway.


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    Dear Slushpilehell, I once read a query letter in which the author informed me her novel had been compared to Gone with...
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    Nicholas Sparks, is that you?
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    Who’s Hemingway?
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    I really doubt your book is as “EPIC” as this.
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    WAY TO GO, PAPA BULLBLOOD.
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