Unsaleable

Along the way, I've been treated to lousy herring by Gary Shteyngart, regaled with unprintable, really yucky stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, upbraided for a really dumb reason by Jeffrey Eugenides, and had my debut novel rejected as "unsaleable" by an agent about a year after it had already been sold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"unsaleable" food items are collected as a part of the nationwide charitable program aimed at bolstering food bank supplies and reducing retail food waste. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The myth of Jack Smith that has emerged tells us of a man who is by today's standards politically incorrect; unsaleable; indulgent in camp Orientalism; the lord of a subversive underground that is no more. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

But if it permits persons to remain in their homes without paying or if it permits abandoned homes to remain unsaleable, it is a bad thing. ❋ Judge H. Lee Sarokin (2010)

Sure, some indie books are unsaleable and some indie authors unprofessional, but you'll find unsaleable product and unprofessional behavior in any industry, including the legacy publishing world itself. ❋ Hillary Rettig (2012)

I really don't care about the banks being left with unsaleable properties; the people are a little more important, wouldn't you think? tpn ❋ Unknown (2010)

But inventory can go "bad," become out-dated, unsaleable, time - or weather-worn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And we had started renovating our house just long enough to demolish half and make it unlivable and unsaleable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Was it fair that some villagers' properties had been made unsaleable by the site's proximity? ❋ Unknown (2011)

The work will lose all commercial value, and become unsaleable in the trade. ❋ James Panero (2011)

Leavings of dog's flesh, putrid and unsaleable, flung to us by the mocking butchers; MINARI, a water-cress gathered from stagnant pools of slime; spoiled KIMCHI that would revolt the stomachs of peasants and that could be smelled a mile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are to worry that “excessive” compensation is a moral crime while overlooking the vastly greater THEFT of our money going on everyday, as one example, as the Treasury pays top dollar for assets that are all but unsaleable in the market EVEN DISCOUNTED BY OVER 60%! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I should write some more, though right now I'm wasting a lot of time on what is probably an unsaleable novel. ❋ Nihilistic_kid (2010)

They kept it for themselves because it was unsaleable — not because it was too risky, but because it was too boring. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Moreover, I made most of those book sales myself precisely because either every agent whom I queried told me a book was unsaleable, or else an agent representing at the time (I've had four) delcared it unsaleable and refused to handle it (or declined to keep sending it out after 1-4 rejections). ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2010)

Given the odds against that happening, as well as the arbitrary, capricious and faddish nature of the publishing industry which Frey previously gamed by recategorizing an unsaleable novel a memoir and then selling it for big bucks, it's no wonder that many MFA's find Frey's in-your-face exploitation an attractive option. ❋ Hillary Rettig (2010)