May 28, 2003
Bloomsbury has posted the list of schools selected to attend the June 26th Royal Albert Hall event with author J.K. Rowling. Perhaps some lucky readers will be in attendance either as students, teachers, or chaperones. Don’t forget there are still contests ongoing in Singapore, the US and elsewhere – we’re due to hear from Scholastic …read more!
May 28, 2003
For those who have been asking, here’s the official site for EA’s Quidditch World Cup video game. Now if they could only get something like this working in Virtual Reality.
May 27, 2003
DigiCasey.com has some excellent new closeups of Hagrid’s Hut under construction. These appear to be the hi-res versions that RexFeatures took.
May 27, 2003
According to the BBC, actor Kenneth Branagh who played Gilderoy Lockhart in the recent “Chamber of Secrets” movie secretly married his sweetheart, Lindsay Brunnock.
May 27, 2003
Meetup.com along with The Leaky Cauldron on behalf of MUARI sent out a joint press release today announcing the Harry Potter MeetUp And Read-In. Please take a moment and send this release to your local newspapers. The more people who hear about MUARI, the better chance we have of capturing all the events going on …read more!
May 27, 2003
Thanks to a reader for informing us that Singapore’s Popular Bookstore will have the same contest several other countries are participating in that will send 3 kids to Royal Albert Hall in London. The same reader has said that Popular locations will be open at 7am on Saturday, June 21st to sell the book. We’re …read more!
May 27, 2003
Checking Meetup.com this morning, I’ve noticed we have over 620 people signed up for the June 20th Meetup around the world. This may sound like a lot, but only 35 of the 225 locations have 5 or more people signed up for them. Each Meetup location needs to have at least 5 people signed up …read more!
May 27, 2003
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, local Badger Paper Mills has made 3 million pounds of what’s known as post-consumer paper for 935,000 copies of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” being published in Canada by Raincoast Books. And if Canadian readers don’t appreciate the recycled pages they’re turning – all 768 of …read more!
May 27, 2003
Tuscaloosa News has an article about local kids gearing up for book five, profiling some of the release events.
May 26, 2003
No, it’s not some representative of the church trying to ban Potter books. According to snippets from The Express sent to us by a reader, Bloomsbury rival Faber & Faber plan on releasing their own book on June 19th. It’s called Shadowmancer, written by vicar Graham Taylor, of Cloughton. The book, allegedly rejected by Bloomsbury, …read more!
