The publisher rejected his terms and the case went to trial.
He certainly did - a whole book of them that had been rejected by more than 20 publishers.
She learned a month later the publisher had rejected the book, mainly over creative differences.
In Britain the novel was rejected by 30 publishers before finding a home.
In January 1934 the publisher rejected the collection but suggested a novel instead.
What did it matter if the first publishers he approached rejected his idea as a loser.
During the book's long crawl to the page, no fewer than 12 publishers rejected it.
But 27 publishers rejected the work, finding it, as he said, "one of the more boring ideas in the last century."
Upon its completion in April 1970, it was rejected by twelve publishers.
Five different publishers rejected the story over the course of a year until it was published by Harcourt in 1966.