Ursula K. Le Guin was told that “The Left Hand Of Darkness” was “unreadable”

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Ursula K. Le Guin wrote after the children went to bed and (when they got older) during their school hours, but it took many years before her work found acceptance.

Le Guin’s early stories were rejected because editors found them a challenge to categorize. From an NNDB.com bio:

Although editors were routinely praising the quality of her writing, they also found her stories difficult to pigeonhole. Typically they were rejected as not being “quite right” for the style or genre of a particular magazi