The great success stories that the people paid to spot them failed to see coming
, Queen. Slightly different. “Queen’s record company thought it was too long to be a single and would flop. Then Kenny Everett played it on his radio show and the rest is history,” said Elliot Kane. , JK Rowling. Ian Leslie mentioned this as another example of the phenomenon. Classic story of repeated rejections from publishers who failed to see the genius of reworking such familiar themes; the fame of the first book spread by word of mouth. .
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