Now onto my PowerPoint for Computers App. My teacher is asking us to make a PowerPoint about who our hero is. I'd have to say my hero is J.K Rowling.
She is such an amazing writer and she led such a hard life in the beginning, and almost didn't get her book published because no publishers would except it!
My dream is to get at least half as well-known as her.
Who's your hero?
In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter.[50] Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evens, a reader who had been asked to review the book's first three chapters, the Fulham-based Christopher Little Literary Agents agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher. The book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected the manuscript.[40] A year later she was finally given the green light (and a £1500 advance) by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury, a small publishing house in London.[40][51] The decision to publish Rowling's book apparently owes much to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next. (Information from Wikipedia)
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