Tailor-Made Turn-Downs
June, 1970
Rejection slips, as budding authors know, are those painful, cold, drab snippets of prose that publications return with an author's thumbed-over, unwanted manuscripts. And one is as unimaginative as another. They invariably speak euphemistically, using such drear expressions as "temporarily overstocked with this kind of material," or "not suited to present needs," or "although editorial requirements may change," etc. Although there's probably no way to keep them fro...
