JK Rowling and Her Extraordinary Life With Harry Potter

Message from Sean Conway, The Millionaire's Plan:

J.K. Rowling is surely one of the most inspiration people we know. From broke to billionaire through writing a book in a cafe with a baby at her side in a pram! She clearly identified her unique talent, had an enormous self-belief and persisted with her manuscript until someone said 'yes!'

If you dont know, it took something like 10 or 11 publishers to review the manuscript, before one finally said yes.


I've put this article in for you to read, firstly because it is such an inspiring story, and secondly, to remind you that amazing things can be done by ordinary people who have an idea and self-belief.

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Warm regards
Sean Conway


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J.K. Rowling and her extraordinary life with Harry Potter

"J.K. Rowling has been ranked as #40 on Forbes' list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. She is the first author in history to be worth $1 billion, and is only one of five women who are self-made billionaires. She has accomplished the nearly unthinkable for a modern writer: she has achieved overwhelming critical and financial success in her own lifetime. Forbes classifies her as a 'media dynamo,' which from all accounts is somewhat amazing to the modest British girl whose greatest dream was to see one of her books for sale in a bookshop and -- if fortune smiled upon her -- to have a positive book review in a national newspaper.

Forbes says:
'Her Harry Potter books have sold a stunning 270 million copies in 62 languages worldwide. Her sixth installment of the Harry Potter blockbuster series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, sold a breathtaking 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours of release and is the largest-ever product debut on Amazon.com. Generating more than $100 million in revenue, her new book's debut is not only the richest opening in publishing history but also gave heart palpitations to the makers of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which debuted the same weekend as the new book. This seven-year phenomenon is not letting up anytime soon, though Rowling has said the seventh installment will be her last. Harry Potter movies, with their antic capers of magic and wizardry at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, have grossed an impressive $2.5 billion to date, including DVDs.' 1 "

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