I despise the "JK Rowling was rejected by twelve publishers before publishing Harry Potter" factoid because it's characterized as some kind of triumphant upending of the clueless literary establishment and not multiple professionals recognizing it was completely derivative work
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Same with Ursula K. Le Guin, who came out and said she very much did not believe Harry Potter was in any sense directly based on Earthsea, but it'd be nice if JKR didn't just accept it when people praised her for inventing "wizard school" books https://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-ArtInfoTheftConfusion-Part2.html …
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Sorry, that's a broken link, here's a Reddit thread with the text that was therehttps://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/89qktk/ursula_k_le_guin_on_philip_k_dick_and_jk_rowling/ …
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