Back cover of the Bloomsbury children’s edition of Half-Blood Prince released, includes cover copy; new information revealed. Could be considered spoilery. There’s a ton of other stuff, including the entire cover of the Scholastic deluxe edition, so I’m just going to refer Potterheads to The Leaky Cauldron and The Daily Snitch. There are (what is assumed to be) actual, concrete spoilers out on the internet, so tread carefully.
And you thought Star Wars had hype!
I do have to admit that I’ll be there at the midnight sale to pick up my copy of the next Harry Potter installment.
But I am quite intrigued by the level of hype surrounding its release. Is this what it looks like for the non-obsessed Star Wars fan out there? Did it really get this large?
I guess so.
No need to list everything here. Head on over to The Leaky Cauldron to watch the coverage of books being shipped. (Of particular interest is the autographed book being given away to a library.)
Or perhaps somebody just spiked the punch bowl
Having witnessed – several times – the raucous explosion of theory and speculation that followed each reveal of the new Harry Potter cover art, I truly enjoyed McSweeney’s Things you can learn about the plot of the next Harry Potter book just by looking at the cover art. Sadly, it’s closer to the serious speculation than you’d think. Which proves my theory that rabid HP fans are totally crazy.
Of course, all hardcore fans are crazy. Even I’m not going to deny that one.
Who says running a fan site never gets you anywhere?
Emerson Spartz, creator of Mugglenet, got an invitation to Scotland to interview J.K. Rowling. Lucky kid!
In other fiction news, the folks over at Bookslut have an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold.
Harry Potter is Safe
Okay. Harry Potter is an amazing series, but it’s not worth dying over, folks.
Two men tried to sell off stolen copies of the new Harry Potter book to some tabloid papers (are we at all surprised?). In a move that many actors would appreciate, shots were then fired at the reporter when he tried to get away with the book without paying the 50,000 pound fee. (Again, not so surprised, here.)
However, Scholastic announced that all copies are safe and will be kept well managed by bookstores, if they want to get any further copies.
Thanks to The Leaky Cauldron for their intrepid reporting.
Radcliffe in for the duration
Potter fans can relax – Daniel Radcliffe says he’ll be back as Harry for the Order of the Phoenix adaption. And since there’s only one book to film after that, odds are good he’ll be back book 7 as well. Assuming Rowling doesn’t linger over the writing too much, that is.
Covering Harry
J.K. Rowling’s publishers have released the covers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In conjunction with the reveal, AP has an interview with Mary GrandPre, whose illustrations adorn the American editions.
There’s already massive speculation about what the cover art says about the story – keep an eye on the Daily Snitch, which will probably be updating in a few hours, with as much obsessive guesswork as you can stand.
A Half-Blood Princess…
A hearty congratulations to JK Rowling and her husband on the arrival of her new baby girl on Sunday.
We are greatly pleased that the little tyke timed it so that her mother could finish the next installment of Harry Potter, first. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be clocking in at 672 pages, with a special edition containing 32 pages of artwork. (Big thanks to The Leaky Cauldron for feeding us our Harry Potter tidbits.)
Harry Potter Spoiler Pictures
The Leaky Cauldron starts out the year with some spoiler pictures from the filming of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Also check out the first picture of that woman we all love to hate: Rita Skeeter.
A Very Harry Christmas
It’s pretty impossible to miss the release date for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, (Less than 38 chapters! Already on the best seller list!) but did you know that they’ve released two stills from the Goblet of Fire movie? Or that “harry potter” is the 8th most popular Google search in Brazil and Finland?