Rejection letters have a bad reputation. Because they are unwelcome, and sometimes quite crushing, there’s an understandable urge to catalogue extracts from the more ridiculous ones and point to them as evidence of how catastrophically wrong publishers can be.
When Toni Morrison was an editor with Random House her rejection letters tended to be long, with generous suggestions.because “what was needed was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs”. The letter was appreciative at any rate than the US publisher Dial Press, which argued it was “impossible to sell animal stories in the USA”.
Morrison could be brusque and direct, but her letters tended to be long, with generous suggestions. These could be on craft or character, but could also be comments on a changing publishing industry, frustrations with the tastes of the reading public and “sympathies for poets, short story writers and other authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres”, as Moe puts it.
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