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Article writing; the art of attracting website visitors
If you have just built a new website, or have an existing website, then you
are now at the stage where you are wondering how to let the internet world in general know so that you can start receiving those highly desirable daily website visitors....
Copywriting: Engage Prospects By Involving Their Senses
Imagine a bland, colorless existence. Where food had no taste, silence surrounded you and everything smelled the same. Not very appealing, is it? Now imagine a crisp, fall morning. The sun is burning away the last of a lazy fog. Robins are...
How to Break Into Writing for Newspapers
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Online Writing and Beyond: Writers Will Lead the Content Revolution
Introduction It is often thrown around loosely on the web that "Content is king." If content is king, then what is a content writer? Unfortunately, we are not yet royalty. We're never paid as well or considered as skilled as a web designer or...
Writing With Power: 5 Snappy Rules For Success
Almost everyone could profit from enhancing their writing skills. From writing more crisp meta-tags – which search engine bots find quite sexy – to turbo-charging your blog readership by writing with punch, a skilled pen can propel any online effort...
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Writing Made Them Rich #1: JK Rowling
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury,
England in 1965. She began writing at the age of 6 with a
story called 'Rabbit', which she never finished.
In high school her favorite subject was English. From High
School, Rowling went to Exeter University where she earned
a degree in French.
After graduating, she spent a year studying in Paris and
then went back to London where she worked in a number of
jobs, including a year with Amnesty International and a
short time as secretary for a publishing company, where she
was responsible for sending out rejection slips.
In the summer of 1990, on a delayed train from Manchester
to London, she came up with the idea of a boy who discovers
he is a wizard. But it would be 7 years before the idea
became a book.
In that same year her mother died of Multiple Sclerosis and
she left for Portugal to teach English, hoping to find a
way to deal with her grief.
In October 1992 she married a Portuguese television
journalist, Jorge Arantes. But the marriage lasted just
eleven months.
In 1993 she left her husband and returned to England, with
the one legacy of her failed marriage - an infant daughter
named Jessica.
Her life suddenly took a nose-dive. Fighting poverty and
depression, she lived in a mice-infested flat in Edinburgh
and struggled to raise her baby daughter on a welfare check
of 70 pounds ($100) a week.
Unable to heat her flat, she sat in cafés nursing an
espresso for 2 hours at a time and worked feverishly on the
manuscript of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'
while her baby daughter slept in a pram.
The manuscript is said to have been rejected by three
British publishers - Penguin, Transworld and HarperCollins.
But Bloomsbury Children's Books did sign her up, reportedly
paying £10,000 ($14,300) for the rights to 'Harry Potter
and The Philosopher's Stone'.
The Philosopher's Stone was published on 30 June, 1997 and
was an
instant success.
The book was published under her initials because her
publisher feared that boys would be less likely to read the
book if they knew it was written by a woman.
At a book fair in Italy later that year, Scholastic Books
bought the American rights for $105,000, an unheard of
figure for a children's writer with only one book to her
name.
It was published in the States in 1998 with the title
'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'.
The sequel - 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' -
was published in June of 1999 and later that same year, the
third book in the series was released, 'Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban'.
By the time her fourth book appeared in 2000 - 'Harry
Potter and The Goblet of Fire' - the series had become an
international phenomenon: the initial print run for her 4th
book was 1.5 million copies in the UK and 3.8 million in
the US.
By 2000, JK Rowland had become the highest-earning woman in
Britain, with an income of more than £20.5 million ($29.3m)
in the previous year.
In 2001 her annual earnings were estimated at over £24m,
($34.3m) placing her between Madonna and Paul McCartney in
the ranks of high-earning celebrities.
In October 1998 Warner Brothers bought the rights to 'Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' and its sequel ('Harry
Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets'), for the tidy sum of
$700,000.
With the release of the first Harry Potter film, J.K.
Rowling's total earnings are estimated to have exceeded
$100 million.
In March 2001 she was awarded an OBE (Order of the British
Empire) by the Queen, for services to children's
literature.
About the Author
Michael Southon has been writing for the Internet for over
3 years. He has shown hundreds of webmasters how to use
this simple technique to get massive free publicity and
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