The Last Chapter

They all failed first. That's the whole point.

Before the six-figure deals, the championships, the standing ovations - there was rejection. Repeated, humiliating, career-ending rejection.

The Last Chapter is a collection of 64 short, true stories about the failures, setbacks, and rejections that came before some of history's most celebrated comebacks. Each one is a quick, potent read - a few pages, one life, one turning point - telling you everything you need to know about the years nobody remembers: the inventor who was born enslaved, the soldier who came home from war and had to start over, the writer whose manuscript ended up in the trash before it changed his life, the athlete nobody drafted.

Written by Alan J. Rockwell - author of Into the Darkness and White Silence - this isn't a book of long biographies. It's a book you can open to any page and read one story in the time it takes to finish your coffee: twelve letters that said no, ten thousand ways that didn't work, a pick so late in the draft almost no one remembers it - until they had to.

Read it cover to cover, or keep it on your nightstand and read one story a night. Either way, by the last page you'll never look at failure the same way again.

If you've ever wondered whether it's too late, whether you've failed too many times, or whether your best chapter has already passed you by - these 64 true stories will convince you otherwise.

Your last chapter hasn't been written yet.