Picture book author and Women Who Write member Corey Rosen Schwartz recently stumbled upon an editor’s poem about reading slush. Her reply reminds us to get our work out into the world. Her book was picked out of the slush!

coreyLast week on Twitter, I came across this fantastic link: Slush Reading, Seuss Style by Jim Hines.

Brilliant, huh?

Not only did it make me laugh, but it got me thinking…

Every critique group seems to have at least one person in it who writes and writes and writes… but never submits. Someone who is talented, but never gets her work out.

So, this is dedicated to everyone who fits that category:

They read slush
Slush, they read
Sometimes they like the slush they read

They read their slush
They do indeed
So if you want
to succeed
Here’s advice that you must heed

You must submit–
that is the key
Submitting is the key, you see

If you don’t
send stories out
You won’t get pubbed
There is no doubt

Can not, will not take a chance?
You’ll never get that big advance

No three-book deals
Or royalties
No rave reviews
Or noisy SQUEES.

You must submit,
Submit you must
Or manuscripts
will gather dust.

So, if you want
to get that call
Submit to one
Submit to all.