Stories from the Slush Pile

• What I've learned from slush reading at Podcastle - everything from cover letters to titles to ways to stay out of the rejection pile
• Confessions of a slush reader: why should I care? - how to help the reader give a damn about your story
• Adventures in Editing in which Cat Valente goes off about boring first paragraphs
• No Shit, There I Was, with lessons from the depths of my own slush pile by Alex Acks, who bought one of my stories for No Shit, There I was.