66 You Have a Book in You Just Say, “Next!” Louis L’Amour wrote more than one hundred Western novels and had 200 million books in print. He received three hundred and 昀椀fty rejections before he made his 昀椀rst sale. Dr. Seuss’ 昀椀rst children’s book was rejected by twenty- 昀椀ve publishers. 吀栀e twenty- eighth, Vanguard Press, sold 6 million copies of the book. Fifteen publishers turned down John Grisham’s 昀椀rst novel, A Time To Kill. More than 100 million copies of his books are now in print. Star Wars, Forrest Gump, Home Alone, and Pulp Fiction were all initially rejected by major 昀椀lm studios. In my seminars, I teach and preach that there is a clean four- letter word that overcomes all rejection: next! When Jack and I were turned down by 144 di昀昀erent pub- lishers one by one, we just kept saying, “Next.” Sooner or later, the law of attraction guarantees that we would syn- chronize in time and space with someone who would say, “Yes! We will be your publisher.” A small publisher in Deer昀椀eld Beach, Florida, had lost their main writer, Dr. John Bradshaw, and was having 昀椀nancial di昀케culties as a result—they were $17 million upside down. We knew none of this. However, the own- ers of this publisher, Health Communications, Inc., read our manuscript overnight. Gary Seidler and his partner,