Sentence examples for editors desk from inspiring English sources

Editors "desk rejected" 722 of the manuscripts, meaning they never made it to the journal's peer-review stage.

Freshly licked envelopes arrive on editors' desks with instructions to. . . but enough; chill your own spines.

Both feel that, with the major houses focusing on a few prime publishing "slots" and "brands", quality manuscripts with sales potential are languishing on editors' desks unread.

But with agents' and editors' desks groaning under the weight of unsolicited manuscripts, he also set his sights on developing relationships that could help his manuscript creep to the top of the pile of somebody important.

The "Best Beauty Products Of 2012" covers the top cosmetics, skin care and hair products out of the hundreds that have crossed our editors' desks this year.

A big man - he was a boxing champion in his youth - he had the gentlest of natures, and was widely liked and respected on the Guardian, where he had given valued service for six years, the last five of them on the sub-editors' desk in the financial department.

The co-editor desk-rejects articles which have very low chances of a positive outcome or suggests a transfer to other journals.

It will involve reporters, writers and photographers losing their jobs as well as sub-editors and some desk editors.

When the package arrived at the editor's office, it was opened, assigned a number, and then sat on the editor's desk, sometimes for weeks if he (and it was almost always he) was out of town.

(It will resurface months later in my editor's desk).

In its opening pages, a corpse is discovered under an editor's desk at a publishing house.