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Showing posts with label JKR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JKR. Show all posts
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Happy Birthday JKR, HP, and...Pottermore
So today was a big day. JKR celebrated her birthday as well as the birthday of the boy who lived. I'm sure Hagrid sent a...lovely homemade cake to each. But this day is important for another reason. Today Pottermore opened its early registration. Now, if you happened to forget that was today, and you want one of those few precious spots, don't fret. There will be another chance tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that... So happy birthday, and good luck to all of you pottermore hopefuls.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
POTTERMORE!!!
Ok, this morning was it, the big announcement. And in case you missed it here it is:
So if you are like me you are probably wondering what exactly Pottermore is. Well as far as I can tell it is a site where readers can interact and learn more about the books. It is also the source of digital ebooks, and EBOOKS (yes that has happened too). But I really can't sum it up as well Leaky, so you can see their coverage here.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
And the answer to the last post...
As if by the greatest coincidence, JKR has come out of the shadows in a big way today. She announced that she is launching a new website, Pottermore. No word yet on what the site actually will be, if you go there you just get a "coming soon" message, but we will know soon. She is going to announce it in less than a week, on June 22. Speculation fills the spectrum of possibilities from a new online game to my deepest desire an encyclopedia. Well more to come I assure you.
Mischief Managed,
Calie
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Where in the World is JKR!?
So lately, Harry Potter fans haven’t heard much news from JK Rowling. No press conferences about anything, no book announcements, no HP news, no public appearances… Her website, www.jkrowling.com, hasn’t been updated since October 28, 2008, which is almost three years. The update was about the release of the book The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which came out in 2008. Where in the world has JKR been!?
I know that she’s extremely famous, but what could she possibly be doing so that she has completely dropped off of the earth? The only thing that I can think of that could be consuming her time other than her home-life would be charity work, but even then, it’s not that often. She has said on a few occasions that she may or may not write another series of the Harry Potter world, but without Harry as the main character. So, to our knowledge, she isn’t writing anymore books for a while- unless you count The Scottish Book. The Scottish Book is supposedly going to be a future production of JKR’s that will basically be a Harry Potter Bible; an incredibly detailed encyclopedia of the Harry Potter universe, if you will. It will feature dropped plotlines, extra information on characters, further elaborations on topics, and more. She hasn’t mentioned much about it since the original mention of the project on a LeakyCauldron podcast, followed up by a newspaper report with her in 2008.
The only recent public appearances she has made recently were at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I movie in 2010, as well as a few charity functions that she is a part of. She has founded a few charities as well- including the charity Lumos and a charity for Multiple Sclerosis in honor of her mother, who suffered and died from the disease. She is involved in many charities that she donates generously too; many of them helping children.
I’m sure that Harry Potter fans around the world, very much like myself, are extremely anxious for the release of this encyclopedia. It doesn’t appear that it will be released for a while, but I will keep hoping that this isn’t the case. Many fans are dreading the release of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 because it is the last Harry Potter movie, which means that the series will come to a conclusion book and movie-wise. It will end the ten year span of the movies, and the twenty year span since the little thought of an orphaned wizard passed through the mind of a woman on a subway.
Though we may not know where she is right now, or know what she is doing, we do know where she will be in a month… at the biggest premiere of her career. This is the final moment- the conclusion of the eight movie series that has so fascinated us. I imagine that this will be the next time that we see her for some time, unless she answers my prayers (and loads of fanmail) about her releasing The Scottish Book soon. Just kidding, I haven’t actually sent them. I guess that we will see what this reintroduction to the spotlight will do for JKR and her public appearances; hopefully spark more, in my opinion!
I know that she’s extremely famous, but what could she possibly be doing so that she has completely dropped off of the earth? The only thing that I can think of that could be consuming her time other than her home-life would be charity work, but even then, it’s not that often. She has said on a few occasions that she may or may not write another series of the Harry Potter world, but without Harry as the main character. So, to our knowledge, she isn’t writing anymore books for a while- unless you count The Scottish Book. The Scottish Book is supposedly going to be a future production of JKR’s that will basically be a Harry Potter Bible; an incredibly detailed encyclopedia of the Harry Potter universe, if you will. It will feature dropped plotlines, extra information on characters, further elaborations on topics, and more. She hasn’t mentioned much about it since the original mention of the project on a LeakyCauldron podcast, followed up by a newspaper report with her in 2008.
The only recent public appearances she has made recently were at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I movie in 2010, as well as a few charity functions that she is a part of. She has founded a few charities as well- including the charity Lumos and a charity for Multiple Sclerosis in honor of her mother, who suffered and died from the disease. She is involved in many charities that she donates generously too; many of them helping children.
I’m sure that Harry Potter fans around the world, very much like myself, are extremely anxious for the release of this encyclopedia. It doesn’t appear that it will be released for a while, but I will keep hoping that this isn’t the case. Many fans are dreading the release of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 because it is the last Harry Potter movie, which means that the series will come to a conclusion book and movie-wise. It will end the ten year span of the movies, and the twenty year span since the little thought of an orphaned wizard passed through the mind of a woman on a subway.
Though we may not know where she is right now, or know what she is doing, we do know where she will be in a month… at the biggest premiere of her career. This is the final moment- the conclusion of the eight movie series that has so fascinated us. I imagine that this will be the next time that we see her for some time, unless she answers my prayers (and loads of fanmail) about her releasing The Scottish Book soon. Just kidding, I haven’t actually sent them. I guess that we will see what this reintroduction to the spotlight will do for JKR and her public appearances; hopefully spark more, in my opinion!
Mischief Managed.
Paige Cyrus
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