How Many Publishing Houses Rejected Harry Potter?
The Exhibit, Which the London Telegraph Says Has Already Sold 30,000 Tickets, Includes Rarities from Author J. K. Rowling, Including a Handwritten Draft of an...
The exhibit, which the London Telegraph says has already sold 30,000 tickets, includes rarities from author J.K. Rowling, including a handwritten draft of an early chapter, a sketch of the Hogwarts grounds, and the series' synopsis that was rejected by 12 publishers.
How many publishing houses rejected Harry Potter books?
The synopsis was typed by Rowling in 1995 "to accompany the opening chapters and circulated among prospective publishers," according to a plaque that accompanies the synopsis. The novel was rejected by 12 different publishing houses before Bloomsbury accepted it.Why did so many publishers reject Harry Potter?
Among the (ostensible) reasons for rejection were too conventional, too long, too weird or too old-fashioned. As if any of these things matter to the audience for which Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone! They just want a good story, for goodness' sake!
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