Slushomatic

Slushomatic is a tool for writers to create and track their submissions to magazines. In addition to being a database for tracking stories/articles, publications and submissions, it will also format your document in the standard style required by editors (i.e; headers, line-spacing, font size, etc..), and auto-create cover letters based on the fields in your database.

This tool is free to use (aside from some blatant self-promotion: buy my book -->), but comes with no warranty.

Written with great sympathy for the suffering of unknown writers - good luck making it out of the slushpile.
- Pete Peters

This program is still in test-mode, and may have some unforgiving bugs. Please forward any requests to me via email. Don't rely on this program to store your documents. As with most tools, its a good idea to back-up your data often (make a copy of the program directory).

• acts as a database for your stories/articles and submissions
• store and import magazine and editor information
• automatically creates printable cover pages and documents
• formats your story/article using standard submission guidelines
• allows you to customize the formats and style for these documents

• Main window
• Update document window
• Update publication window
• Example printable cover page
• Example printable story

Requires:

• JRE 1.4 or higher (download)
• Adobe Acrobat reader

Download:

• Slushomatic-1.0 (zip format)
• Slushomatic-1.0 (tar format, for linux machines)

Installation:

• Download the zip file
• Copy and extract the zip file to a folder of your choice on your hard drive. (i.e; C:/writing/slush) You wont break the program by putting it in the wrong place. (except the Recycle Bin)
• create a shortcut from the slushomatic.exe file to your desktop (or pulp.jar file - if your system is set up for executable jars)
• create a shortcut from the submissions folder to your desktop - this is where you will find your generated PDF files

Please E-Mail me directly.

Slushomatic uses several open-source tools - iText for generation of PDF files by Bruce Lowagie and Paulo Soares (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/), Apache Xerces (www.apache.org) for reading and writing the XML files, and l4j (http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/docs.html) for creating the exe file for the jar-impaired.

Published under the GNU GPL. Source available inside the .ZIP package. Do what you want, but don't take out the menu-item for my book promotion.