The rejection pile
If you pick up the New York Times on sunday, you will see this lovely essay in the book section. It’s a great article and shows how the biggest publishers can get it hopelessly, hopelessly wrong. I know this is a well-worn path (think Decca rejecting The Beatles) but it’s still a fascinating insight into the rejection process that so many books go through. How could anyone reject Anne Frank’s diary? How could anyone reject Animal Farm (especially because they thought it was a book about animals)?
Hindsight is, indeed, a glorious thing.