Good news, perhaps, for would-be authors who fear their work has been forever lost in the hard-copy slush pile ("Oops, I seem to have filed the unsolicited manuscripts in the recycling bin!"), for with the launch of HarperCollins' Authonomy, the pile not only goes online, it goes (apparently) democratic.

Apparently. At any rate, it’s a great way to keep unsolicited slush out of the house.