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I hear a lot of JK Rowling stories, and I think some of them are a little bit hyperbolic. For example, she pretty much got her agent straight away (he was like the second she queried?)
Harry Potter went on sub, and got picked up by a publisher. All those other passes were fielded by her agent, and honestly, it sounds like she got picked up on her first round.
I think we cling to the "JKR was rejected lots" myth because it's wish fulfillment in a way - perhaps one day we will say "I told you so" to everyone that rejected us!
I have read interviews with Rowling, and she says she had several novels before HP that went absolutely nowhere. In fact, she was literally living hand to mouth as a single mother trying to support her children. So her her lack of "overnight success" is definitely not hyperbole.