It’s Wednesday afternoon and Jesse Briton and Gary Trainor, the stars of Potted Potter, are squeezed into a cramped corner of Starbucks at the RCBC Plaza.
J.K. Rowling, the British author of the best-selling Harry Potter books, was forced to reveal on Sunday that she had published a critically acclaimed crime novel under a pseudonym.
Full disclosure: I never would have guessed.
Does J.K. Rowling really have anything else to prove?
Year 2013 has proven a magical one for J.K. Rowling’s phenomenal book “Harry Potter.” Fans worldwide celebrated the 15th anniversary of the first publication of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” known here and in the United States as “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
Are you Team Harry or Team Ron? This week, J.K. Rowling expressed having second thoughts on her decision regarding the love lives of the “Harry Potter” main characters. She said Harry and Hermione Granger should have ended up together.
J.K. Rowling is back with a novel involving a writer whose acid-tipped pen may have led to murder.
J.K. Rowling can’t seem to stop dropping one “Harry Potter” shocker after another.
The internet left one mighty fine Easter egg for Potterheads around the world when Pottermore’s website released an article from the Daily Prophet written by Rita Skeeter. Of course, the puppet master Rita was actually J.K. Rowling in disguise.
At first glance, Cormoran Strike sounds like a Frankenstein’s Monster of character qualities: imaginatively named, dedicated private investigator, missing half of one leg due to military service in Afghanistan, unwanted son of a rock star, armed with an uncanny memory, physically intimidating but internally sensitive. In the hands of a lesser writer, Strike would be a cardboard cutout. Luckily, J.K. Rowling can really write.
