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LovesJazz2 · 56-60, F
🤗[b]Persistence will pay off for you eventually![/b] 🤗

JK Rowling was turned down By 12 publishers before finding success with the [i]Harry Potter Books[/i].

Margaret Mitchell's [i]Gone With the Wind[/i] was with faced rejection 38 times.

Gertrude Stein submitted poems for 22 years before having one accepted.

Richard Hooker's book that inspired the film and TV show [i]M*A*S*H*[/i] was denied by 21 publishers.

Meg Cabot, the bestselling author of [i]The Princess Diaries[/i] keeps a mail bag of rejection letters.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen's [i]Chicken Soup for the Soul[/i] received 134 rejections.

Agatha Christie had to wait four years for her first book to be published.

William Saroyan received an astonishing 7,000 rejection slips before selling his first short story.

[i]Carrie[/i] by Stephen King was rejected 30 times before it was published.

[i]Lord of the Flies[/i] by William Golding was rejected 20 times before it was published.
JupiterDreams · 31-35
@LovesJazz2 Those are all good examples! Thank you :) I hope I'll eventually make it. 🤗
LovesJazz2 · 56-60, F
@JupiterDreams You'll make it! Just keep, keeping on! 👍️ 🤗
Fallflower · 46-50, F
Good luck... sounds so daunting. Very awesome that you’re going for it. It sometimes boggles my mind to see certain stuff that has been selected for print, there is something for everyone, it will take time but if you keep trying it should pay off 👏
JupiterDreams · 31-35
@Fallflower Thank you :) It is a bit daunting but I hope it will be worth it in the end.

 
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