Full disclosure: I never would have guessed.
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.
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.
Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.
Just the mention of her name, J.K. Rowling, had the audience screaming and on its feet.
For more than 10 years, all she had known was magic. Since 1997, J.K. Rowling has made money appear out of thin air—making herself wealthier than the Queen of England at one point—and famous worldwide by conjuring from her “riddikulus” imagination the boy wizard Harry Potter through seven books that also turned young-adult fiction into a publishing creature of mythical stature.
British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults, “The Casual Vacancy.”
Forgive me, J.K., for I have sinned. I’ve been a believer in the magic of Harry Potter since I first read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in fifth grade.
To take a leaf out of Hermione Granger’s book, it is best to familiarize yourself with the history, language, and social practices of a world different from yours before even entering it.
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