sound heroic substantial Stephen King, a contemporary American author of horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy, has set us a good 4) example. His first book Carrie was rejected 30 times, so he threw it in the trash. But his wife gave him the good 5) advice to resubmit it. The rest is history due to his nice 6 ) effort. He has sold more than 350 million copies of his books.