Free Copy of Everything Is Eventual
In my ongoing effort to clean up the Slushpile.net shelves of duplicate books, I’m giving away a free copy of Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. It’s a mass market paperback, in great condition, and contains stories that were originally published in The New Yorker, Psychos, and others. It also contains Riding the…
continue readingLike a Clueless Software Boss
When I face lengthy airplane rides, I try to bring a variety of books. In addition to mindless entertainment reads, I bring at least one serious piece of literature along with one substantial nonfiction text. I find that a massive nonfiction tome with footnotes, endnotes, appendices, forewards, and afterwords gives me something to really dive into…
continue readingThe Query Version of Pulling Pigtails
You remember when you were a little boy? And the best way to show you had a crush on a girl was to tease her, make fun of her braces, put bugs in her lunch, and pull her pigtails? The always enjoyable Miss Snark presents a query letter written by an author who is clearly still in…
continue readingIt Even Comes with a Guarantee
This bold and enterprising eBay seller is seeking a mere $1,163,000 for the movie rights to his story. And he’s willing to guarantee the success of this idea. “If the Movie does not stand among the best 10 movies of the year, all the money paid during purchase will be refunded excluding the fees and taxes incurred…
continue readingBack to the Grindstone
Back to work… in whatever exhausted condition I’m in… I’ll fill you in on all the details of my excursion in a couple of days after I’ve had time to upload the photos and go through everything. It’s good to be back, but I hope you’ll forgive a light day here at Slushpile.net. Let’s see…
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