Something Nasty in the Slushpile: How Not to Get Published

Most publishers keep a ＂slushpile＂ - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might just conceal that one jewel of a bestseller or classic novel lying near the bottom. This book takes a tour through the ’do’s and ’don’t’s of book proposal.