J.K. Rowling Nabs W.H. Smith People's Choice Award

J.K. Rowling's adult readers have chosen her over Ian Rankin, James Herbert, Colum McCann and Mark Haddon for the WH Smith's People's Choice Fiction Award for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Rowling said she was "honoured" and that "unabashed adult Harry PotterContinued...

USA Today: Rowling Decade's Most Successful Author

In a feature about the changing landscape of books and bestsellers, USA Today says that J.K. Rowling " is the decade's most successful author, landing five of the top six spots on the list of the 100 best-selling books of the past 10 years."

JK Rowling Interview on BBC Radio

JK Rowling will be interviewed on BBC Radio for a program called "The Learning Curve"which is set to air Tuesday, March 16th. Show host Libby Purves says "we'll be in Scotland with JK Rowling who is looking back in order to help us consider the difficulties of being an adult learner, and betteringContinued...

AP and the nonexistent eighth book

The Associated Press, in its story about the chat, has gone back to that old Harry Potter news chestnut, taking J.K. Rowling's equivocacy on whether she'll stop at seven books and blowing it up into a headline about the possibility of an eighth book. Nothing's really changed with regard to her bookContinued...

Chat Translations

Totally Harry Potter has up a Spanish transcript of the J.K. Rowling interview, and De Lekke Ketel has up a Dutch translation. Also look for the German translation on Hp-fans.de, a French translation at the Harry Potter Mysteries forum, and a Portuguese translation from Brazil's Hogwarts site.
UPDATE: We have a Russian translationContinued...

BBC: JKR Drops Hints in Web Chat

Newsround was at JK Rowling's office for today's Web chat, and did a great little interview (including picture of her at her comp) with her after it ended.

What was the webchat like?
There were some really good questions. I feel guilty that obviously people want a lot of information about the next two books,Continued...

Articles about the JKR Chat

JK Rowling Hints at More Harry Potter - Yahoo! News

Rowling Hints About New Book, Owes Harry Apology - Yahoo! News

Harry Potter to 'grow up' - The Courier Mail

We'll update this as they come in.

JKR Transcript Update

A full transcript of the chat is here, with the questions in order. (Phew!) Among the many revelations (no spoilers here, you'll have to read the chat!): which house at least three of the Marauders were in; clarification on the ages of the Weasley children; the kids' middle names; whether or not Hermione is an onlyContinued...

J.K. Rowling Chat Transcript

A working transcript of JKR's amazing World Book Day Chat is here. Ms. Rowling answered approximately 140 questions, and the fans did not disappoint in grilling her senseless - the revelations (and teasers) are dizzying. While we fix this transcript up, discuss!

Reminder: JK Rowling Online Chat

Reminder: Tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th is World Book Day which launches with a live web chat with JK Rowling. The chat runs from 10:00 to 11:00 am GMT.
In a related story, 12 schools in the UK were given the opportunity to ask JK Rowling a question during the chat. One of the lucky schools has this question: “DoContinued...

JK Rowling at charity ball

JK Rowling made a rare public appearance at a charity ball for the Leap for Meningitis fundraiser in Edinburgh. She generously spent 127,000 British Pounds towards things as a dinner to be cooked by celebrity chef Nick Narin, a motorised scooter, and a guided tour of Edinburgh to be conducted by author Ian Rankin.

Scholastic on Book Six: "Summer of 2005...more likely summer 2006."

Financial advisor Smith Barney Citigroup recently downgraded the Scholastic(SCHL) stock from "buy" to "hold" citing concerns about the companies continuites business and worries about the government's "do not call" registry affecting Scholastic business.Continued...

Forbes Cover Girl

Check out the cover of Forbes magazine, featuring everyone's favorite cover billionaire, J.K. Rowling (who, it must be said, brings much better hair to the billionaire club than her fellow, Donald Trump). Thanks very much to Sirius Kase for sending this in!

J.K. Rowling Makes Billionaire List

J.K. Rowling personal fortune of $1-billion has earned her the place as the 552nd richest person in the world on Forbes magazine's billionaire list.
UPDATE: Karen has sent us the direct Forbes link - thanks, Karen!

Update: JKR online chat

We now have some more details about the online chat with author JK Rowling on March 4th. The World Book Day Online Festivalwill be launched by JK Rowling with an interactive web-chat between 10 and 11am (in the UK).This will include 12 special questions from winners of a national schools' competition.
JK Rowling says:Continued...