Charity / J.K. Rowling / News / Studio Tour
J.K. Rowling hosted a very exclusive fundraiser today (Saturday, November 9th) at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter to raise funds for her charity Lumos.
J.K. Rowling’s latest novel The Cuckoo’s Calling has been nominated for Best Mystery & Thriller of 2013 in the Goodreads Choice Awards! This is currently only the opening round of voting, featuring fifteen official nominees in each category with the opportunity for write-in votes.
The fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar has named J.K. Rowling their Inspiration of the Year, as part of their Women of the Year 2013 issue, thanks to the important work she’s done with her charity, Lumos.
SPOILER ALERT: The editorial is filled with spoilers from The Cuckoo’s Calling. The end will be spoiled! The killer revealed! The mystery ruined! The climax quoted! In short, do not read on if you’ve...
The plaque on a narwhal tusk from the 1800s bears the name of a Harry Potter character. The owner of the tusk wrote to J.K. Rowling and she wrote back!
You could say that J.K. Rowling wears many hats, most notably as a writer but also as a mother of three and founder of the charity Lumos. In a brand new interview with Geordie Greig, J.K. Rowling discusses each of these hats and how they relate to one another.
After the thrilling announcement back in September that J.K. Rowling would be penning a script based on her Harry Potter companion book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, there has been very little further news about the project’s development and projected timeline – and it looks like fans are going to have to wait a while longer yet. In a new interview Warner Bros. president of creative development and worldwide production Greg Silverman revealed that the company has set no deadline for the Fantastic Beasts script.
The Marcliffe Hotel in Aberdeen has received a very special gift from J.K. Rowling herself – a Dobby statue used in the making of the Harry Potter films, along with a placard signed by the author!
Although The Casual Vacancy was J.K. Rowling’s first post-Potter book to be released, new sources say that The Cuckoo’s Calling actually sold to publishers first.
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