Rejection Feedback – Inspiring, Informative, or Insensitive?

Editorial feedback on a rejection is as varied as editorial tastes, and how an editor chooses to relate something like “close-but-no-cigar” to an author can be radically different from market to market. A recent discussion about a comment I received a while back got me thinking about this and how we, as authors, might react to different styles of feedback, even when feedback from different editors essentially says the same thing. So, let’s look at three comments I received on three rejections an...