The BBC Radio 1 stint has come and gone — and what I wouldn’t give to be a resident of the United Kingdom right now! People who live in the U.K. can call 09013 26 77 88 before midnight October 6th to enter a contest to visit the Tardis and the set of Doctor Who …read more!

Cable channel ABC Family will continue their tradition of broadcasting the Harry Potter films as they have now secured the cable rights to movies five and six. Variety reports that ABC Family now “has cable rights to “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” 10 months in advance of its theatrical debut, and [is] making …read more!

Banned Books Week Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 27’October 4, 2008 As Banned Book Week approaches, I’d like to ask any bloggers/vloggers who read this blog to do one blog on your favorite banned book. By doing so, I’m hoping that those of us in this blogging community will have our voices heard and …read more!

The one that I want to talk about is One Flew Over the cuckoos Nest. I can understand why some parents are concerned with their children reading these, but I am also of the belief that teenagers are more mature than parents give credit for. i read this in play format in my senior year …read more!

Today kicks off the start of Banned Books Week. For more details on this topic, check out color=”blue”>Doris’s Blog. I went through color=”blue”>this list and picked out the books that I have read, and a surprising number of them are YAs. Here are the ones that I have read: Harry Potter Alice Series Bridge to …read more!

Breaking Dawn spoilers! (psst: part 1 was my guest blogger, Abbey, blogging about Snape and his sacrifices. check it out color=”blue”>here!) Where do we begin? Parents so often sacrifice so much and their children either don’t know it, don’t understand it, or don’t appreciate it enough and take it for given. There is so much …read more!

The Bean Trees Review Perhaps I shouldn’t have promised that I would start with Jo’s favorite books. Perhaps I should have acknowledged that I would read those books, but that knowing myself, I would get sidetracked by a million more in the meantime. Oops. This definitely isn’t a novel that I was planning to recommend …read more!

Hey all: As mentioned here before, my forthcoming book, Harry, A History, features a foreword by and interview with J.K. Rowling. A large portion of our lengthy interview did not make it into the book, so I’m posting interview outtakes and info on the book’s site regularly. The latest post is about the Veil at …read more!

This will have to be brief, but it’s exciting. BBC’s Radio 1 is going to broadcast live from the Tardis with DJ Chris Moyles on Friday morning. And he’ll have Russell T. Davies with him on the set, and David Tennant on the phone! *squee* Oh, and of course Equus is opening tonight in New …read more!

As readers will remember, actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) will be stepping onto the Broadway stage this evening with his Harry Potter co-star Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) for the formal opening of the play “Equus.” Preview performances of the Peter Shaffer play began earlier this month at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City, which …read more!