![]() In addition to assuming that the book would not sell well, the editorial team at Bloomsbury advised Rowling that she should not publish under her real name, Joanne Rowling, because boys would not read a book written by a woman. Rowling made up her middle initial in response to her publisher’s sexism Rowling’s editor, Barry Cunningham, warned her that she needed to get a day job because it was impossible to make a living writing children’s books. However, Bloomsbury was not convinced that it had a bestseller on its hands. Upon finishing, she immediately demanded the rest of the book. ![]() ![]() Bloomsbury saw the potential of the book because the chairman of the publishing house gave the first chapter to his then 8-year-old daughter, Alice, to read. Finally, a small British publisher, Bloomsbury, said yes. (The name was changed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the United States.) The book was rejected by over a dozen publishers. Like many first-time authors, Rowling struggled to get her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone published. Rowling owes her success to an 8-year-old girl Rowling was an unemployed single mother on public assistance when she wrote the first book, but with a little inspiration from some unlikely places, she took the literary world by storm. ![]() But her success was not an inevitability. Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter series, created the best-selling book series of all time. ![]()
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