stackyFACTSTwelve different groups of highly paid literary "experts" looked at a book about an orphaned boy wizard and collectively decided, "Nah, there's absolutely no money in this." Bloomsbury finally accepted the manuscript only because the chairman's eight-year-old daughter demanded to read the next chapter.
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