Harry Potter is one of the best loved fictional characters of all time and author J.K. Rowling’s books have sold over 400 million copies. But this year, as Harry Potter turns 20, we are reminded that there was a time when Rowling was a new author, like so many others, fielding rejection after rejection while waiting for her big break. In celebration of the 20th anniversary, Rowling’s original pitch for the book that would be […]
From the this-is-really-too-stupid-to-repeat-but-someone-has-to department: enraged adult fans in Perth, Australia, complained so stridently when a Harry Potter-themed library event was planned for kids that organizers were ultimately forced to cancel the event. From The Independent: The City of Perth Library in Australia originally invited “witches, wizards and muggles” aged 12 to 18 to the get-together, in a bid to introduce young people to the new library and its staff. But it wasn’t long before adults […]
As a new term begins, is Harry Potter’s son heading off to school? That’s what JK Rowling leaked in a tweet the other day. Naturally, Twitter exploded with excitement at this news, because starting a new term is so much better when you can imagine Harry Jr doing it too…right? See the full piece on the Independent here.
JK Rowling is collaborating on a play based on Harry Potter’s early years. The play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, “will tell the ‘untold part’ of the boy wizard’s story, including the story of the lives of his murdered parents,” writes the BBC. However, the author said on Twitter the play was “not a prequel.” It will run at the Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016, with tickets on sale this autumn. Rowling […]
JK Rowling has completed the script for the screen version of the Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. According to Harry Potter producer David Heyman, the script is “wonderful.” From The Telepgraph: Heyman praised Rowling’s debut scriptwriting efforts: “She is so smart, and her turn of phrase, the precision of the language she uses, is a joy to behold.” Heyman’s company, Heydey Films, has produced all eight of the blockbuster Harry […]
With all of the Harry Potter movies firmly in the can, one can imagine Warner Brothers was happy to get author J.K. Rowling to sign on to adapt her Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them for the big screen. From Deadline: Rowling says it’s not a sequel or a prequel to the Potter adventures, but will kick off in New York, 70 years before Harry’s story starts. No timeline or director has been identified […]
To our knowledge, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling and Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins have never been in competition. But if they were? The latest word is that Collins would be in the lead. Forbes tells us that The Hunger Games series has passed the Harry Potter series to become the all-time bestselling series of books. From Forbes: Although author Suzanne Collins only wrote three books, her Hunger Games trilogy has been able to zap the […]
We don’t know when or where or what, we only do know that it will happen and, when it does, we don’t need to be told that the world will watch. And closely. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and one of the wealthiest women in the world, has announced that she’s signed a deal with Little, Brown for publication in the United Kingdom and the United States. UK publisher David Shelley will […]
As any Harry Potter fan will tell you, Quidditch is just one of the wondrous things author J.K. Rowling devised for her magical books. But unlike many of those things, Quidditch, with its quaffles and snitches, has been brought to life. The Guardian brings us a glimpse of a match at Oxford: To onlookers it may have seemed outlandish and bizarre, but to these mostly teenage Oxford students it was the realisation of a dream. […]
With Pottermore, the new online community based on the world of Harry Potter, preparing to go into beta, The Guardian looks at how children’s books can often lend themselves to leaching into the real world: Pottermore may be the most ambitious attempt to extend the legacy of a children’s book, but it’s just the logical technological extension of a process that began when print ceased to be the sole means of mass communication. Kids’ books […]
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