"And if the editor rejects it, I've got to return the advance."

The editor rejected it, as he felt it didn't fit into either fantasy or science fiction categories.

But reviews can take months, even more than a year, and still editors can reject the manuscripts.

It is also a fact that some editors will either reject or rewrite stories which do not conform to such standards.

If editors rejected the work of every ill-mannered writer, our nation would face a serious literature shortage.

Days before the magazine went to press, the editors rejected the article.

They decided to send their first publication to Nature, but the editors rejected the paper without even mailing it to experts for peer review.

Poetry's editors do not even reject letters that come in without return addresses.

The editors rejected this idea and the paper remained Republican.

Upon reading the story, the editor rejected it as "too sad"; the work was not published until 1951.