Amidst a slurry of stall outs on my agent list, I decided to see what other famous authors had to go through before they got published. The link I found is very inspiring:
A couple of the stand outs to me were:
John Grisham
He was a lawyer, who loved to write. His first book Time to Kill was written in 3 years and rejected by 27 different publishers. But now he is one of the bestselling authors with total copies of 250 million of his books sold.
JK Rowling
She gave birth to Harry Potter and the guy made her famous and rich. But things were not that smooth in the beginning. 12 publishers before that rejected her manuscript. So if she gave up, let’s say after the 10th rejection we would never know that Harry even existed.
Margaret Mitchell
She received 38 rejections before Gone with the Wind was published and as a result sold 30 million copies.
Bottom line is, if any of these famous authors had given up in the process, hadn't just submitted their manuscripts to just that one more agent/publisher, the world would be a vastly different place without Butterbeer, twisted stories of lawyers, and Scarlet O'Hara's. Just like that frog poster choking the stork that I grew up with in elementary school. NEVER GIVE UP!
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