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To: SamAdams76

JKR is laughing all the way to the bank. She has been ridiculed and accused of being anti-Christian. Yet she has now completed the series of books she envisioned so many years ago.


5 posted on 07/23/2007 5:12:43 PM PDT by tioga (I'll take Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson for President. Pick one.)
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To: tioga
Now picture J.K. Rowling before her first book was published. Hanging around cafes in England, collecting government checks and probably figuring life is hopeless. Ten years ago, nobody could imagine some welfare mom selling 325 million books!

Now J.K. Rowling gets a 1500 pound advance (not much) for her first book and only gets a thousand copies on the first print run - half of which go unsold and sent to libraries. Her publisher tells her to get a day job as she has "little chance" selling children's books. And just like that guy who told Elvis Presley to get a job driving trucks, the rest is history.

11 posted on 07/23/2007 5:23:49 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 47 days away from outliving Marvin Gaye)
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