The problem is I believed that should be my expectation for my very first published novel. (lindacassidylewis.com)
When Ransom Riggs first published the novel Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children it may have well have been subtitled, «Please Make This Into A Movie, Tim Burton». (screenanarchy.com)
Stephen King's first published novel Carrie was rejected 30 times. (writingforaliving.us)