The woman who wanted to commit suicide has become the only billionaire writer in the world!!!

in Steeming Community3 years ago
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998. The lady is in her thirties. She looks pretty. Sitting in a medium-sized room, she has a sad look on her face. It is normal to stay. She got divorced from her husband several years ago. There is a little girl in the house. No job. She thought he would do the same. But the results are not available. One year she wrote two books, but no one is willing to publish them. The story is bizarre. She wrote a children's novel, sitting in a cafe and playing the plot on his head. It's called "The Cuckoo's Calling" ... another book about a boy, written in the genre of fiction. The publisher took two manuscripts through an agent some time ago. The lady is quite worried. She has endured the pain of rejection for the last year. But this time the mind says something will happen!


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Let's say this woman's name is Joanne. To be exact, that's part of his real name. Coming later in the full name, let's go to a little more flashback first. Let's go back a few years. After separating from her Portuguese husband, Joanne returned to her homeland, England. She had a bachelor's degree in French language and literature and also tried to become a secretary. But my mind was on writing. So he quit his job. The beginning of the chapter of hardship. A little girl in her lap, no income, only government allowance is the source of mother-daughter. In England then the problem of unemployment was evident. Joanne was engulfed in intense uncertainty and despair. At one point she even thought of committing suicide. Not only did she set foot on that dark path thinking of the girl, but she also wanted to live in the grip of uncertainty. Worked in a cafe in Edinburgh for a few days. Sitting there, she started writing a novel. The writing time was not smooth at all. The girl was very young then, she had to keep an eye on him all the time. The pressure of the cafe's work on him - she continued to write in all directions. It ended in 1995. But who will print? Anyone who reads the manuscript says that these are all weed stories. Joanne thinks that fiction will be cannabis, it is not possible to be true. A year has passed since the publishers went door to door. The result is a horse egg, you already know that.


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Let's go back to that room again. Publisher Nigel Newton is standing in front of Joanne. The lady can't believe it, did she hear what the man said a little while ago? Finally, someone is going to print his book! The gentleman goes on to say- “Understood, the story of the boy wearing the glasses, my daughter remembers very well. Or she likes the boy in the story very much. After reading it, I also thought that it can be printed. No matter who reads it, the girl will be happy. You will come tomorrow and take the advance money ...! ” Joanne couldn't believe her ears. The rest of Newton's words did not reach his ears. It was as if he had returned home in a daze.
The plot of this story came to her mind when she was traveling from Manchester to London by train in 1990, the story of a little boy. The orphan boy goes to the school of magicians to learn magic. At the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The boy's name is Harry Potter. Millions of children and teenagers have spent the golden time of their lives with this character. And our Joanne, the creator of that Harry, whose full name is Joanne Joe Rowling OBE, whom we know as JK Rowling.
How many years have passed since Rowling started writing, Rowling went to Portugal, got married, became a mother, left her husband, and returned to England! Harry didn't change his character. The boy who lost his parents in childhood has gone to Hoggart's on the pages of a book, that school is clearly floating in the pages of our minds. Thinking of ourselves as ‘Muggles’, we burn with regret, try to play Kidich with a broom between our legs! Harry Potter is a treasure trove of memories for us!


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The first book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Although the book has taken a while to respond. One thousand copies were published in the first edition. Half of which was sent back to the libraries of different schools. No one is buying, what else to do! Those books in the first edition are now part of history, some of the rarest books. Each of these costs a minimum of 25,000 pounds. Think? Where Rowling initially received an honor from England for writing the first book for only two and a half thousand pounds!
In 1998, she sold the rights to the first two books to Warner Bros. Corporation. Harry Potter came on the celluloid screen. Then Rowling didn't have to worry about money anymore. The books in the Harry Potter series began to see one success after another. Movies also began to be made. Breaking all records in the history of the publishing world, the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire sold nearly three million copies in the UK on its first day of publication, and more than three million copies in the United States in two days! All the books in the Harry Potter series have been shortlisted for the All-Time Best Seller. All the books in a particular series have been bestsellers, which no one would have imagined in the next hundred years.


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Her books have been translated into about seventy languages ​​worldwide, selling nearly four and a half million copies. There is no record of any other bookselling so much except the scriptures. In 2004, Forbes Magazine published details of JK Rowling's assets. A decade ago today it was a little over one billion US dollars. The following year Forbes declared her the second richest woman in the world, ahead of only Oprah Winfrey. He is also the first and only author to earn a billion dollars just by writing. A few days ago, his total wealth decreased to less than one billion due to donations. Rowling, who used to struggle to provide for himself and his daughter even a year ago, who was anxious to commit suicide, now runs a charity fund to feed thousands of hungry people!
Over the years, she has fascinated millions of readers and stuck them in the pages of books. The magician of the fantasy world has brought me back from the city like a charm. Critics say Rowling himself could not have given birth to another Harry Potter. After all, Harry Potter is born once. No one will be able to do in a hundred births what he has done in one birth. JK Rowling is not only a writer for us, Mayaghera is also a weaver of a dream web!

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