Chicken Soup For The Soul authors: rejected 134 times

When Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen started shopping around their Chicken Soup book idea, they were rejected 134 times (”and here we are 100 million books later”), including rejections from twenty major publishers.

Now, total retail sales of Chicken Soup for the Soul branded merchandise reached over $1.3 billion, top media brands like King Features (stories in 77 newspapers—daily), Woman’s World (stories to 1.6 million subscribers—weekly), BeliefNet (stories to 770,000 subscribers—daily) an