{"id":19001,"date":"2011-08-05T13:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=19001"},"modified":"2011-07-27T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T12:26:30","slug":"some-comfort-for-some-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/08\/05\/some-comfort-for-some-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Comfort for Some 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And did you see the second part?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Famous Author Rejections:\u00a0Hitting\u00a0A Dry Spell<\/p>\n

Feel glum over oodles of\u00a0rejection letters<\/a>? Get this:<\/p>\n

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  1. John Grisham\u2019s first novel was rejected 25 times.<\/li>\n
  2. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul<\/em>) received 134 rejections.<\/li>\n
  3. Beatrix Potter had so much trouble publishing\u00a0The Tale of Peter Rabbit<\/em>, she initially had to self-publish it.<\/li>\n
  4. Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em>) received 121 rejections before it was published and went on to become a best seller.<\/li>\n
  5. Gertrude Stein spent 22 years submitting before getting a single poem accepted.<\/li>\n
  6. Judy Blume, beloved by children everywhere, received rejections for two straight years.<\/li>\n
  7. Madeline L\u2019Engle received 26 rejections before getting\u00a0A Wrinkle in Time <\/em>published\u2014which went on to win the Newberry Medal and become one of the best-selling children\u2019s books of all time.<\/li>\n
  8. Frank Herbert\u2019s\u00a0Dune <\/em>was rejected 20 times before being published and becoming a cult classic.<\/li>\n
  9. Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind<\/em>) was rejected\u00a0over 30\u00a0times before her book was published.<\/li>\n
  10. Stephen King received\u00a0dozens of\u00a0rejections for\u00a0Carrie <\/em>before it was published (and made into a movie!).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And did you see the second part? Famous Author Rejections:\u00a0Hitting\u00a0A Dry Spell Feel glum over oodles of\u00a0rejection letters? Get this: John Grisham\u2019s first novel was rejected 25 times. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) received 134 rejections. Beatrix Potter had so much trouble publishing\u00a0The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she initially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-blogging"],"yoast_head":"\nSome Comfort for Some 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And did you see the second part? Famous Author Rejections:\u00a0Hitting\u00a0A Dry Spell Feel glum over oodles of\u00a0rejection letters? 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