Inspiration

So, I'm probably one of the only people left in the country ... no, scratch that ... the world, who has never read any of the Harry Potter books. I've seen all the movies, which I totally love, but just haven't gotten around to reading the series just yet. But I will. Oh, that I promise. With all my friends telling me how amazing the series is and their popularity across all countries and ages, I want to read the books. I want to learn how she did it. How she captured the imagination of the world. As one reviewer said, we'll never see a phenomena like this in our lifetime again. To me, the Harry Potter books are the Star Wars of this generation. And to think, a woman who has become a billionaire from a story about a boy wizard almost didn't get published. Twelve different publishers rejected her. It took a year for her story to finally get picked up by a small press for, according to once source, a 15oo pound advance and told to keep her day job because she would never make a lot of money in children's books. And the only reason the publisher even bought it was because the owner's daughter liked the story. The initial print run was only 1,000. And if any of you have the original British copies, many of which were distributed to libraries, then about $20–30K is resting on your bookshelf. Pretty cool for an idea that started during a train delay and ended with an amazing book 5 years later.

Truly inspirational. So don't throw away any of those ideas you feel passionate about. You never know what may happen.