Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evans,
a reader who had been asked to review the book’s first three chapters,
the Fulham-based Christopher Little Literary Agents agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher.
The book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of
which rejected the manuscript, >>> 'No thanks' to publishing the first Harry Potter novel.
A year later she was finally given the green light (and a £1500 advance) by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury, a small British publishing house in London, England.
The decision to publish Rowling's book apparently owes much to Alice Newton,
the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury’s chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next.
Although Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book, Cunningham says that he advised Rowling to get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children’s books.
Soon after, in 1997, Rowling received an £8000 grant from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to continue writing.
The following spring, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was won by Scholastic Inc., for $105,000.and further ahead u all knows .
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