Where Man Josh

digresssmlOriginally published January 9, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1260

And now, we present: Peter’s True Horror Stories of Publishing.

Before I became the full-time and eminently competent writer I are now, I spent time toiling in the field of book publishing. One of my varied duties in that endeavor was to deal with the public and go through the material that found its way onto what is cheerfully known as the slush pile. This is the term for unsolicited material, over-the-transom stuff that comes in, and no one knows quite what to do with it.