LIFE TOO PRECIOUS

JK ROWLING - AUTHOR OF HARRY POTTER NOVELS
At the age of 25, she lost her mother in the year 1991. The death of her mother shattered her completely.After the death of her mother, she moved to Portugal for the change and taught English as the foreign language.
In 1992, she married a Portugal TV Journalist Jorge Arantes. She became pregnant, gave birth to a daughter, Jessica. But her marriage didn’t last long, and only after 13 months she divorced him and moved to Edinburgh, with her daughter and the first three chapters of “Harry Potter.”
By the end of 1993, the situations became more miserable for her. She was a single parent of a newborn baby living in a cramped apartment, penniless and she had no permanent work.
She went through depression and admitted that she even considered suicide. But she didn’t give up on her dreams
For the sake of survival, she rented her apartment and was forced to live on state benefits. And she used that money to look after the needs of her daughter.
She was ashamed, distressful and had no idea where her life was going.But the tough situations, didn’t break her, she spent the most of her time writing while sitting in the local cafe.
And after the sheer patience and hard work of 5 years, she finished her first book. and the first edition of Harry Potter was completed.
It was the year 1995, the struggle of getting it published began. She remade the first chapter of her book for fifteen times!
She knew that getting it published is never going to be easy. She received replies from the publishers as, “It is too difficult for children, “It is too long”, “Children would not be interested in it.”
Her manuscript was rejected by the top 12 publishing company. She got disappointed and had no idea what to do now.
Finally, the publishing house in London, Bloomsbury gave her green signal. She added “K” to her pen name and just for $4000, Bloomsbury brought the rights of Harry Potter from the J. K. Rowling.
Her book hit the shelves and faced instant hit. The book won the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the year.
By the time the whole world fell in love with Harry Potter, her third and fourth edition had broken all the records. Her series of seven books has since sold more than 450 million copies which transformed her life completely.
Later on, Warner Brothers purchased the film rights to the first two novels for $1.5 million.
In 2011, Forbes estimated her total worth about $1 billion and that made her the wealthiest author of the world.
Source- The Most Inspiring Success Story of J.K. Rowling
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