One question regarding this development: Do you think her wand has a slide-out keyboard, or is it a touch screen? NEW YORK (AP) -- The real J.K. Rowling has come to Twitter. Wanting to counter numerous fake Rowlings on Twitter,...
Maybe it's because the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film is just around the corner (July 15!), but my thoughts are turning to all things Harry. And I suddenly wondered: given J.K. Rowling's love of The Chronicles of Narnia,...
LONDON (AP) -- The publisher of the wildly popular and very profitable "Harry Potter" books says it intends to fight a lawsuit alleging that author J.K. Rowling stole the idea for the series about the boy wizard. Bloomsbury Publishing...
Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries plans a rare book auction that will include what it calls a "rare true first first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," with a signed card by J. K. Rowling. It can be yours...
Stephen King, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer have a lot in common: a thing for the semi-dead, rabid fans who would gnaw a limb off (yours or theirs) to get to their latest material, enough cash in the bank to...
Fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series are well aware of the literary reputation of Hogwarts, A History, which is always being quoted by Hermione Granger, aka the cleverest witch of her generation. Many of us, in fact, live in...
Today is Harry Potter's birthday, as well as his creator's. And Harry's fans can rejoice: J.K. Rowling is bringing The Tales of Beedle the Bard to print, with both US and UK editions to be published Dec. 4. The illustrated...
J.K. Rowling is NOT visiting a small town in Louisiana, disappointed Harry Potter fans have learned. When I came across this story, via Shelf Awareness) at first I was outraged that a bookstore in Slidell, La. could fall for someone...
As promised, here's our first look at the Harry Potter symposium in Dallas this week. As Jeffrey Weiss points out: Pointy-headed academia is meeting pointy-hatted Potter fandom. Watch for more on Portus 2008 in days to come....
After reading the Harry Potter prequel, I realized how much I miss the series. It doesn't take a genius to see the influence it had on culture from the spawn of a genre of music (Wizard rock) to giving ten-year-olds...
I know you were earlier offered the chance to see the 800-word Harry Potter prequel in J.K. Rowling's very own handwriting. But honestly, that index card's kinda squinchy and hard to read, even when zoomed-in upon. To save your eyesight...
An 800-word Harry Potter prequel that J.K. Rowling is NOT working on (her words) raised $48,858 for charity in London on Tuesday. You don't have to pay that much to read it. It's posted here. Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and...
J.K. Rowling gave a very moving commencement speech at Harvard that stressed the transformative power of the imagination. Read about it here. She urged graduates to empathize with the powerless. The Harry Potter author credited her trials and low points...
Mugglenet.com notes that Scholastic, J.K. Rowling's American publisher, plans a special edition of the first Harry Potter book this September, to signify the 10th anniversary of the first U.S. edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Illustrator Mary Grandpre...
The Associated Press says: A court ruling in favor of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has set the stage for a trial on whether publication of photos taken of her young son violates his privacy. The Court of Appeal in...
For the first time in 10 years, there are no Harry Potter books on The New York Times best-seller list. The post on The Times' blog notes how the paper had to keep inventing new lists to keep J.K. Rowling...
According to The Associated Press, J.K. Rowling angrily defended her rights as an author as testimony ended today....
NEW YORK -- A Harry Potter fan who wants to publish an encyclopedic guide to the wildly popular fantasy novels broke down and cried on the witness stand Tuesday as he faced off in federal court against his idol J.K....
She took the stand today in her federal lawsuit to stop publication of stop publication of Steven Vander Ark's "Harry Potter Lexicon." And she is NOT happy. "This book constitutes wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work," she...
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