We all love these stories from the threshing floor to the living rooms. And the case of Joan Rowling, the mother who wrote a children's story in an Edinburgh cafeteria to get rich, is a milestone here. Only she is not the only one, as we must now add Amanda Prowse to the list.
Her own story is of course even more incredible, how a mother who did three jobs, that is, to feed her two children and had hit her and the cancer from above managed to do even more.
Amanda worked in a call center but also in a dish of a large company, although to make ends meet she also worked as a cleaner, since her husband Simeon's salary was not enough to support a family of four.
She was even forced to leave the professional arena when she was stricken with cancer and came dangerously close to poverty. "We had visited our parents in London and we did not have money for petrol to go home. "I knew in that look that I had to go back to work," he told the Daily Telegraph.
A few days after the tragic realization, when there was only 20 euros in the family bank account, but also 6.500 euros in debt, she received that phone call from a publishing house that she was interested in releasing her first book. They even gave her a deposit of 5.000 euros!
She had sent her work to many publishers and waited for months and months for an answer, an answer she believed would never come. "If they had not offered me on time, I would have returned to my three jobs," she admits.
"Poppy Day" was finally released in 2012 and launched her to the top. But again he had to wait: "It was only in 2013, when I had written 2-3 bestsellers, that I got my first big check for 50.000 or 60.000 euros."
She now writes feverishly, completing several books a year, which usually climb the bestseller lists and bring her more than 1 million euros a year.
Even so, he remains modest, as he always remembers and honors the years of misery. Now she writes 10 hours a day, never takes a break and spends her money with mind and knowledge. "My life is quite ordinary, only I now control it," he says, "money has given us the freedom to choose, so we travel often. In the future we may invest somewhere, but we will see "…