Via:  The BBC News Online The final instalment of the Harry Potter film franchise is to be released in 2011, it has been announced. Fans of the boy wizard will get to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II in cinemas from 15 July. Warner Brothers decided to split the seventh book in JK R...

Stephen King is getting more annoying by the minute. He recently slammed Stephenie Meyer and called her a no-talent loser. Ok, he wasn’t quite that harsh, but really, you shouldn’t slam someone who has such a huge fan base as Stephenie Meyer and her "Twilight" series. I’d...

The Scotsman today has two items in a Harry Potter report: First, that J.K. Rowling is on expected to receive an invite to one of January 20th's Inaugural Balls in Washington, DC. This seems to have traveled from one article suggesting JKR would be on the list for future state dinners, to another sp...

The mince pies are all gone, the turkey's finished – or beyond the reach of mayonnaise to resuscitate – and eyes already bleary from too much festivity turn wearily towards the future. It's time to look back on the year that was and ahead to the year that is to come. One of the delights of web p...

The mp3 of JK Rowling’s Harvard Commencement speech came on to my iTunes as I was shuffling through the library.  I have spoken before about how much this speech touched me and how it is full of wonderful lessons for people of all ages. When listening again just now, I came to the following p...

The Wizard and the Hopping Pot: There was once a kindly old wizard who used his magic generously and wisely for his neighbours. But then he died and he left his lucky cooking pot to his son. His son was a meanie who didn't like Muggles (1) and refused to help anyone. The pot got very angry about thi...

You’ve got to hand it to Steven Vander Ark: the guy’s got chutzpah. In September, a Manhattan judge ruled against Vander Ark in a lawsuit launched by mega-selling author J.K. Rowling over a proposed Harry Potter encyclopedia, which Vander Ark was set to publish. The encyclopedia was a pr...

Filed under: Holidays, Shopping & recalls J. K. Rowling's latest effort, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, goes on sale today, just in time for all the Harry Potter fans on your holiday shopping list, the ones who are still mourning the end of the stupendously successful series about the kid with th...

We’re not heroin addicts, but if we were - and heroin was made of books about rubbish schoolboy wizards - we’d be screwed. Because if that was true, then JK Rowling would be our dealer. And Rowling is a mean dealer, too - she’s been withholding our supply, probably until we break d...

Ever since the last Harry Potter book came out, there’s been a lack of shamefaced adults reading kid’s books on the tube. And that’s because now everyone’s reading Twilight instead, despite the fact that reading a staunchly conservative abstinence manifesto dressed up as a sl...