Cheryl Klein, Assistant Editor of Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.), is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Luncheon at Nimbus – 2003 in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, July 19, 2003. Klein has worked on the U.S. editions of the HP books and is involved in the pre-publicatoin process for …read more!

Stockhouse reports that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will have a first printing of 6. 8 million copies, an all-time United States publishing record.

The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, and HP3 director Alfonso Cuarón was given a nod for Best Writing of an Original Screenplay for his film Y Tu Mamá También. The film is not up for Best Foreign Language Film. (I saw it this weekend and it was well-worth a writing nod, though parents …read more!

French & Saunders (the team behind AbFab and other brilliant British comedy) will be doing a parody of the HP films. It’s set to air as part of BBC1’s Comic Relief night on March 14, and will be directed by Adrian Edmondson of The Young Ones and Bottom. The send-up will be called Harry Potter …read more!

Thank you BBC, for investigating the matter with WB over there in England. According to Newsround sources, Cho Chang has not been cast, and JKR does not have a cameo in CoS. So there you go. That’s why they’re called rumors, people. 🙂

JKR was named the top of 50 Scots who are “Shaping World Culture”, in a survey published this weekend, and compiled by the critics on staff at The Scotsman. The paper says that the list represents Scotland’s cultural establishment and profiles those people in the arts world who currently wield influence around the globe, although …read more!

The Scotsman reports that a plaque to author JK Rowling could be erected in the Edinburgh café where she famously wrote the first Harry Potter book. The café will soon become a Chinese food restaurant.

An article in the new Stern magazine reports on Harry Potter fanfic, covering both English and German stories. You can use Babelfish to read a slightly pathetic translation. The article says, in part (thanks to Tom Wieczorek for the translation): The amateur authors spin their own tales from Rowlings books: those who like the greasy-haired …read more!

Petrea, one of our longtime readers, has created a terrific resource for the PS/SS DVD. She’s given step by step guides on how to find all the trickily-hidden things on the DVD, like the tour of Hagrid’s Hut, and the steps you need to take to get to the Deleted Scenes. Thanks so much, Petrea!

I just wanted to chime in and thank Heidi for preparing the OOTP FAQ – it’s really excellent, and I just wanted to be sure she was noted for it! 🙂 It’s in our template now, so it’s right there when you need it.