{"id":1825,"date":"2014-03-21T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T22:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2014-03-21T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T23:57:34","slug":"feel-rejected-best-selling-authors-got-many-rejection-letters-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Feel Rejected? Here Are Best-Selling Authors Who Initially Got Many Rejection Letters From Publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peter-Rabbit-Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1826\" alt=\"Peter Rabbit Book\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peter-Rabbit-Book-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Nobody likes to be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>But here are some best-selling authors who were rejected many times before they became successful like Beatrix Potter who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>It was rejected so many times she decided to self-publish 250 copies, \u00a0according to <a title=\"Best Selling Authors who were rejected many times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryrejections.com\/best-sellers-initially-rejected\/\">Literary Rejections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Rabbit has sold 45 million books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody will want to read a book about a seagull.\u201d \u00a0But Richard Bach\u2018s Jonathan Livingston Seagull goes on to sell 44 million copies.<\/p>\n<p>Here are other best-selling authors who were also rejected, according to Literary Rejections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Louis L\u2019Amour received 200 rejections before Bantam took a chance on him. He is now their best ever selling author with 330 million sales<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cToo different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.\u201d A rejection letter sent to Dr Seuss. 300 million sales and the 9th best-selling fiction author of all time.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou have no business being a writer and should give up.\u201d Zane Grey ignores the advice. There are believed to be over 250 million copies of his books in print.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0140 rejections stating \u201cAnthologies don\u2019t sell\u201d until the Chicken Soup for the Soul series by Jack Canfield &amp; Mark Victor Hansen sells 125 million copies<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The years of rejection do not break his spirit. He only becomes more determined to succeed. When he eventually lands a publishing deal, such is the demand for his fiction that it is translated into over 47 languages, as The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis goes on to sell over 100 million copies.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<em>It is so badly written.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0The author tries\u00a0Doubleday\u00a0instead and his little book makes an impression.\u00a0<em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em>\u00a0sells 80 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody likes to be rejected. But here are some best-selling authors who were rejected many times before they became successful like Beatrix Potter who wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit. 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