What Publishers Really Mean In Their Rejection Letters

The Guardian briefly lets us know.

From the piece...

Last week I tweeted the real meaning of phrases that publishers use when rejecting authors under the hashtag #publishingeuphemisms and deciphered glib phrases such as: "this is too literary for our list" (it's boring); "the novel never quite reached the huge potential of its promise" (your pitch letter was better than the book); and "sadly we are publishing a book similar to this next spring" (it too has a beginning, middle and end).