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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009The cafe where JK Rowling originally spent a lot of time writing the first Harry Potter, is now up for sale again. Nicolson’s Cafe in Edinburgh had been bought a few years back and had been turned into a Chinese restaurant. The owner is hoping that someone will buy the restaurant and turn it into [...]
Beedle the Bard Book Review
Sunday, December 28th, 2008BlogCritics.org author Richard Marcus has posted a review of JKR’s most recent work, The Tales of Beedle the Bard. It is one of the more structurally sound, and therefore more reliable, reviews that has popped up on the net over recent weeks because it tells people who have not yet read the book what they [...]
Vander Ark At It Again
Saturday, December 6th, 2008Vander Ark is back, and he’s moving forward with the publishing of an edited down Harry Potter encyclopedia. In September, a New York judged ruled in favour of J.K. Rowling, and publishing was halted on Vander Ark’s previous encyclopedia. “We learned a lot at the trial about what was acceptable, what would follow the fair-use [...]
Beedle Release Party Report
Thursday, December 4th, 2008MuggleNet staff member Christie was in Scotlamd for the release party of JKR’s newest book, Tales of Beedle the Bard, in which a few HP actors were present and Rowling gave a reading from the book. Actors who attended the tea party include Ian Rankin, Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray, and Evanna Lynch, the latter of [...]
Fans Prompted Beedle The Bard
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Reuters is reporting on the Beedle the Bard tea party with JK Rowling and about 200 primary school students held earlier today. She spoke about herself, like her favorite authors, her love of Christmas, and her fear of spiders. “What’s funny is, as you probably know if you’ve read Harry Potter, I gave Ron that [...]
Latest HP Book: Out Now!
Thursday, December 4th, 2008That’s right, all you Potter fans! Today, December 4th, is the official release date of JK Rowling’s newest book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard. So head on over to your nearest book store and pick up a copy ASAP!
Vander Ark’s Book Approved!
Monday, November 17th, 2008Steven Vander Ark’s most recent book, In Search of Harry Potter, has been approved for publishing by J.K. Rowling’s lawyers. In Search is about the places in the UK that have played their parts in Harry’s live. With a lot of examination of the book, J.K. Rowling’s lawyers have agreed that it can be published, [...]
J.K. Rowling ‘blessing’ a new Potter book
Friday, November 7th, 2008J.K. Rowling, who as we all know won a lawsuit earlier this year about the publishing of a Potter Lexicon, she has now blessed another Potter book written by a superfan Melissa Anelli, who runs the Leaky Cauldron website. In fact, J.K. Rowling wrote the forward to Anelli’s book titled: “Harry, a History: The True Story of a [...]
Pettigrew: Best Fake Death
Saturday, November 1st, 2008JK Rowling’s story of Peter Pettigrew made it high on the list of The Guardian‘s list, Ten of the Best Fake Deaths, alongside Ben Jonson’s Volpone and Mrs. Henry Wood’s East Lynne. In the third part of the Potter roman-fleuve, Peter Pettigrew pretends that Sirius Black has killed him, cutting off one of his own [...]
Appeal Rejected in JKR Privacy Ruling
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Back in May, JK Rowling successfully sued Big Pictures due to them publishing a picture of her with her son, which she said infringed his rights to privacy. Big Pictures tried to appeal the court’s decision, but their appeal has been rejected by the House of Lord’s. Observers have commented that the Court of Appeal’s [...]
Beedle the Bard News on JKR’s Site
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008JK Rowling updated the news section of her site today, with information about the release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, on December 4th. Rowling writes about the Tea Party at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburh, and how you can be able to go the release. She also talks more about the [...]
Beedle to be Launched in Edinburgh
Monday, October 20th, 2008JK Rowling plans to host a charity tea party for the December 4th launch of The Tales of Beedle the Bard at the National Library of Scotland. About 20 school children will be asked to go to this special event, during which JK will read excerpts from her book. Proceeds from the sale of Beedle [...]
Autographed HP Set to be Auctioned
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008JK Rowling has donated an autographed set of the seven Harry Potter books to the XP Support Group to auction on Ebay. Rowling’s heart reached out to victims of the disease, Xeroderma Pigmentosum, which is a rare genetic disorder that causes ultra-sensitivity to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, when Kate Middleton’s son was diagnosed. Rowling has [...]
JK/Stephen Fry Photoshoot Pictures
Sunday, October 5th, 2008Taking a break from the endless amount of Half-Blood Prince photos we’ve seen in the past week, a Flickr user has posted photos of a Stephen Fry/JK Rowling photoshoot. The photos were taken in May 2007 to promote the the UK Potter audiobooks, which Fry narrates.
J.K. Rowling, World’s Best Paid Author.
Friday, October 3rd, 2008JK Rowling is the world’s best paid author, banking more than £170 million in the last year, the US business magazine Forbes has said. Rowling, who wrote the first of her best-selling books about boy wizard Harry Potter, once a single mother on welfare, earned 300 million US dollars (£170 million) over the past year. [...]
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