[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harry Potter Publishers

[ewe2]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:02:47AM -0000, Marilyn Peake wrote:
> Hi, "ewe2" and Joe,
> 
> I remember seeing J.K. Rowling interviewed on television awhile back; 
> and she talked about her early publishing experiences.  She said 
> that, after the first Harry Potter book was published in the UK, 
> sales were slow; and her publisher or agent (I forget which) told 
> her, "Don't give up your day job."  Then someone at Scholastic saw 
> the book, loved it, and bid more than Scholastic had ever bid on a 
> book before.

Heh, I'm half-right as always, but that at least explains the publishing
mystery of why the big companies passed on JKR: they must have thought
Scholastic insane, but they didn't understand children's publishing either.

*splash*

ewe2

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