![]() ![]() She is able to quit her teaching job and devote her time to writing. rights to the series, giving Rowling an advance over $100,000, a record for a foreign children's book. Scholastic Books wins an auction for the U.S. October:īritish publisher Bloomsbury Press accepts the book, giving Rowling a $4,000 advance. Several publishers reject the book, finding it to be too long and slow for children. ![]() Her literary agent warns her "You do realize, you will never make a fortune out of writing children's books?" Writing whenever she can, often in cafs, Rowling finishes her first book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. She takes along her daughter and her ever-growing book manuscript. Now separated from her husband (they divorce in 1995), Rowling moves near her younger sister, Di, in Edinburgh, Scotland. ![]()
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