The transcript from my chat on USAToday is now up – enjoy (and thanks to everyone who sent in questions!) – and feel free to discuss, comment, tell me where you disagree, etc.

Hi from Vegas, folks. I wanted to take a minute to do a “Shout Out” to a fan of the site – Shanny McGibbon. One of their friends told me about them (in a rather coincidental way) so I thought I’d say hello – and your friend told me you’re really into FanFic…..fire off an …read more!

From Everyone Here At TLC (because we all wanted to post this, but I had the best left hook, so I won): size=”+2″ color=”green”>HAPPY BIRTHDAY J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter! JKR turns -coughhowrudecough- today (July 31, as it is now in the UK), and Harry is a ripe old 23. In honor of the occasion …read more!

Some people have had trouble getting at the pics from The Sun, so here they are: Harry, Stan and The Knight Bus Hermione threatens Malfoy The Knight Bus McGonagall talks to Harry

Markets Initiative, the group that works with Raincoast Books and other Canadian publishers to eliminate the use of papers derived from ancient and endangered forests, has invited The Sugar Quill to co-host a fan fiction tournament in order to promote recognition of their important cause. Submissions are limited to 1000 words, must take place in …read more!

To calm the naysayers, I searched the archive and found this pic from CBBC which clearly shows the kids in robes – new and improved robes, natch, so we know it’s from PoA. There are robes in PoA, everyone. Please relax about them. Let’s wait until we have the movie to judge its worth, robes …read more!

The Baltimore Sun has a great article regarding SugarQuill.net. For those who don’t know, The Sugar Quill is a Harry Potter fanfic site and second home to TLC editors, Kristin & Meg! 🙂

Wrestlers with the WWE are promoting reading through a poster program entitled “Get Excited About Reading”. Fans who email in the name of a book they’ve read or plan on reading this summer can get a free poster featuring WWE wrestlers putting a choke hold on some great books…including Harry Potter. (It’s the third poster …read more!

And it starts…The Sun has posted a bunch more PoA pics, including Hermione threatening Draco Malfoy (looks like Cuaron had Felton ditch the hair gel – gotta say, yay), Harry talking to McGonagall while the rest of the students seem to be leaving for Hogsmeade and Harry almost getting run over by the Knight Bus. …read more!

Tnew July 2003 issue of Art & Frame Review has Mary GrandPre as the featured artist and the cover shows the beautiful illustration of Night Owl from a cover of Goosebumps. There are also two (small) Harry Potter color illustrations. One is the Time magazine cover and the other is the complete CoS cover all …read more!