[SamAdams76]

Now picture J.K. Rowling before her first book was published. Hanging around cafes in England, collecting government checks and probably figuring life is hopeless. Ten years ago, nobody could imagine some welfare mom selling 325 million books!

Now J.K. Rowling gets a 1500 pound advance (not much) for her first book and only gets a thousand copies on the first print run - half of which go unsold and sent to libraries. Her publisher tells her to get a day job as she has "little chance" selling children's books. And just like that guy who told Elvis Presley to get a job driving trucks, the rest is history.

[tioga]

-someone posted that a school book club in the US picked it up and it became a best seller. Interesting.

If you have the dream, don’t give it up.

[Trailerpark Badass]

But stories like hers give life a richness and magic that self-help books, if they worked, would not.