J.K. Rowling publishes rejection letters from publishers

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The British writer J. K. Rowling, the creator of the series of works about the young wizard Harry Potter, who does not need any additional introduction, decided to support all young and aspiring writers by publishing some of the letters she received from publishers at the very beginning of her career on the Internet. The writer said that the letters were posted to her "not out of revenge" and that is why she covered up all the signatures of the publishers who refused her. With her action, Rowling decided to demonstrate that one should never ask, which she later wrote about herself, on her page on the Internet.

J. K. Rowling said that when she just started writing, she received refusals from literally every publishing house where she sent her works. Then she worked under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, which, as it is not difficult to notice, is male. Rowling never later concealed the fact that at the start of her writing career she was deeply convinced that a woman's first and last name would interfere with her publication. Subsequently, the writer said that she hung up letters of rejection at home in the kitchen and said to herself that she would send her books until the company ran out in Britain. Roiling admitted that at some moments she was seriously afraid that this would be the case.

The writer also said that she still keeps all the abandoned letters as a keepsake. They are in a box in her attic.

Recall that the first novel by J. K. Rowling "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was released in 1997. The last, seventh in a row, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - in 2007. All works about Potter have been filmed. Today this cycle of novels remains the most read among the children's audience. The circulation exceeds 500 million copies, and the books have been translated into 67 languages.