@ JBSpesh: Dear JBSpesh, likes and dislikes are very subjective and your comment only did what those publishers had done when they had rejected the aforementioned works. The fact that YOU think that Rowling's Harry Potter series isn't a good kind of writing doesn't have to mean that it really isn't. And although popular doesn't always equal good, popular doesn't automatically exclude good. And you surely shouldn't assume that people who like HP haven't read other fantasy works because that's pretty insulting. Even though you wrote "probably", your way of expressing your own opinion hints that people who like HP only like it because they don't read much and don't know the truly good fantasy works, which isn't true.