Marshall Laurens
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1978 Omni cover art
“Picture Stephen King onstage at his high school prom, getting a bucket of rejection slips dumped on his head. That’s what I’m assuming he felt like in 1973 when 30 publishers rejected his paranormal horror novel Carrie.
King almost didn’t complete the first draft of the book that kicked off his lengthy career as a novelist, either; his wife had to fish the first three crumbled pages out of his trashcan and convince him to complete it. It sold one million copies within a year, and King is now the world’s most famous horror author.”
Hoot von Zitzewitz
Update: Looks like it isn’t Hoot; it’s artist Lloyd Birmingham. Thanks to Joachim Boaz for the correction!
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