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Good ideas or luck?  Some of the great fortunes have been created overnight. In the world we live in, without any doubt of great consumption, we are surrounded by all kinds of technologies and services, and this can provoke that the launching of a novelty can turn its creator into a millionaire …. and sometimes in few days.
J.K.Rowling, the magic of success.Joanne Rowling Volant was born on 31 of July in 1965 in the small village of Chipping Sodbury, in South Gloucestershire, England. Being the eldest of two sisters, she started writing at the early age of six. In 1990 she moves with her boyfriend to the city of Manchester and it’s there, concretely in a packed train with destination London, where she starts weaving the plot of the magic world of Harry Potter. After the death of her mother at only 45, due to multiple sclerosis, she moves to Portugal to work as a language teacher. There she meets her first husband, with whom she will have Jessica, her first daughter. The marriage doesn’t work out and in 1995, after getting divorced, se moves to Edinburgh, Scotland, to work as a full-time teacher, dedicating the nights to writing her novel. At last, she achieves finishing the book and, after several refusals, the literary agent Christopher Little is interested in her work and, one year later, achieves to find a publisher, who’s interested in the work. The publisher is Bloomsbury, which buys the first novel (“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”) for the amount of 3.000 dollars. To increase the sales, the publisher advises her to include only her initials in the book, in order to hide her condition of being a woman. For that reason, she adopts the letter K as her second initial, honouring her beloved grandmother Kathleen, who died two years before. As off that moment, everything has been a spiral of events. The sudden success of the book, added to the receiving the “Smarties Book Prize” award, boosted the sales and catapulted the fame, which caused her true terror, thinking it could be an unprecedented success and troubling the redaction of the second novel. Despite this, the second book (“Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber”), was an even bigger success, putting her in first place of the list of most sold books of England. With the third delivery (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azbakan”) and the announcement that Warner Brothers had bought the rights of the first book to take it to the big screen, the definite boom occurred, which allowed her to publish her books at a worldwide level in 47 languages. During the preparations and filming of the first movie, one of the most expensive of the entire history (150 million dollars) the fourth book (Harry Potter and the goblet of fire) was published, which broke the world record of sales by being sold out, in the whole of Europe, in a matter of minutes. She also published, in a totally altruistic way, two of the textbooks that Harry uses in her novels (“Quidditch World Cup” and “Fantastic Beasts and where to find them”) in order for the entire profit to be distributed by the foundation ‘Comic Relief’ to various charity associations around the world. In the same way she made important donations for the investigation of multiple sclerosis, an illness she experienced close by during her youth. Not satisfied with this, she reached an agreement with “the Coca Cola Company”, the biggest investor in advertising about Harry Potter, to launch the program “Live the Magic”, in order to promote reading in the whole world, a project that is also dedicated to offer children’s books to children with scars resources. During its first weekend, the first movie of the young student of magic becomes the biggest box-office success of all times on a worldwide level and turns its author into one of the richest and powerful women in the world, ousting the master of terror Stephen King from the first place on the New York Times Best-Sellers list. At the end of 2001, she gets married for the second time to the plastic surgeon Neil Murray and the year after, the second movie of the saga consolidates the success obtained by its predecessor. During 2003 she receives the ‘Principe de Asturias de la Concordia’ prize and publishes the fifth issue of the series (“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”), delayed by a lawsuit for plagiarism, which took over three years and was finally rejected. En 2004 the magazine Forbes attributes her a fortune of 845 millions of euros (some 1.144 millions of dollars), which turns her into the only writer with the right to appear on the Forbes list of a thousand millionaires. One year later the fifth book of the series appears (“Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince”), causing a special commotion by filtering that an important personality would lose his life, which made that many fans finished the book in just one night. In autumn of that same year, the third movie of the series appears and, months later, the DVD version appeared in the Guinness Book of Records of 2006 for being the DVD with the quickest sales in the UK. It’s in this year, 2006, that the Forbes magazine mentions her as being the second richest woman in the world in the field of entertainment and, one year later, places her number 48 of its list of the 100 most influential celebrities. Today, it is considered that her fortune exceeds that of the Queen of England, who awarded her with the title of Royal Dame, and among her property she owns three mansions en the United Kingdom: two in Scotland and a third in London, close to Buckingham palace. It should be reported that the profits of her work are a perpetuity, meaning that even after her death, her family members will continue to receive profits of her books, movies and other merchandise related to the saga. |
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