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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
And how many important books of those genres are sitting in a trunk because no publisher would buy them?
About a dozen publishers turned down the billion-dollar Harry Potter franchise, for example. If Rowling had given up before trying number thirteen, we would never have heard of it.
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Actually, what you should be celebrating is not that a dozen publishers saw no merit in an offering by an untried "welfare mother" (that's how conservatives would describe her) but that a publisher
did have the balls to put their money down on what was a giant gamble. Just goes to show that if you keep trying , and if you have something good,
some publisher will likely invest in you, and share the financial risk of developing your book from a manuscript and bringing it to market.
Notice that's "likely", not "certainly." Contrary to popular belief round these parts, there are good and valid business reasonms for a publisher to turn down an aspiring author, and forego what is a risky business proposition. (Most books don't turn a profit for the publisher).