When The Cuckoo’s Calling eventually found a publisher in 2013, it was achieving respectable sales before the secret of its authorship broke, and it then shot to the top of the bestseller lists.

Joanne Harris, author of a string of hit novels, joined the Twitter discussion to say she had so many rejections for her 1999 book Chocolat, later adapted as a Hollywood movie, that she had piled them up and “made a sculpture”.

Rowling, Harris and their literary disciples are in excellent company. Eimear McBride, the 2014 Bailey’s prizewinner for her first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, accumulated a drawer full of rejection letters before a chance conversation led to her book being published by Galley Beggar, a tiny independent publisher in Norwich.

25. Which of the following is the name of a prize for fiction?

A. Robert Galbraith. B. Chocolat. C. Bailey’s D. Crème de la Crime

26. JK Rowling’s novels were rejected for the following reasons EXCEPT that _________.

A. the writer needs to learn some techniques about how to write

B. books are meant to be published for bringing in money

C. the publisher for the time being denies new submissions

D. those that can be adapted for movies are worth considering

27. Why did JK Rowling post some rejection letters on the Twitter?

A. To inform readers that hardships make a man stronger.

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