Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have posted a new video online featuring a question and answer session with Arthur Levine. This is a short video, called “Meet Arthur,” where the US editor of the Harry Potter books describes his job at Scholastic, and what he looks for when seeking out new material to publish.

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Publisher’s Weekly has a lengthy new piece online regarding the upcoming The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling where it notes that as this is the first new Harry Potter novel due out at the height of the holiday season, retailers are hoping for good sales. The article states the book “will have to ship from wholesalers during the Thanksgiving rush.
Ingram Book Group’s director of merchan…

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An exhibition of works by artist Mary GrandPre has now opened at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa, and contains highlights of her work for magazine covers, posters, and notably pieces done for the US editions of the Harry Potter book series. A report has surfaced online saying this exhibit surprisingly contains new work from the upcoming Tales of Beedle the Bard, as well as work from futu…

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Previously we told you that there were to be several contests held to win the chance to attend the special tea party held by J.K. Rowling for the release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard next month. One such contest is from The Edinburgh Evening News, which launched this event last night. Their contest will give the opportunity for ten schools in the Edinburgh area to receive invitations to atte…

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As Halloween is now upon us, we have a treat for you in the form of a brand new episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast.  Our 171st episode kicks off with Sue’s News, which includes Scholastic’s interviews with a few key people behind the Harry Potter novels, more theme park rumors, a marketing professor’s report on the readers of Harry Potter, “Beedle the Bard” publication news, confir

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USA Today is marking 15 years of their Best Selling Books List, and the Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling hold seven of the top nine spots. With Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone coming in at number one, two other books (Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution, and The Da Vinci Code) outsold the remaining novels in the series. The fourth spot on the USA Today list seen here is held by Harry Potte…

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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has updated her website this morning with a news entry on the launch of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Jo writes of the special tea party which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland December 4, reminding us of the various contests being held to attend the event, as well as noting one of the original handwritten books she gave as gifts after the completion of “Death…

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A quick update today regarding the upcoming publication of the new book from J.K. Rowling. As noted by the Bookseller and now seen on the Children’s High Level website, a press release indicates that The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be published in Braille “produced in partnership with RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) in the UK and the National Braille Press in the USA.” In addi…

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BBC News is reporting that JK Rowling will be reading excerpts from the Tales of Beedle the Bard at a tea party at the National Library of Scotland, hosted by The Children’s High Level Group, the charity that Jo Rowling co-founded . The Party will take place on December 4, 2008, the same day that [...]

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With the news of a special party in Scotland for the release of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and the contests to win a trip to this event, comes word  now that one of the seven original handwritten copies of the book will be on display to the public here in New York City in December. Scholastic has announced that Arthur Levine, editor of the US editions of the Harry Potter novels, was one of t…

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As a follow to what we first reported below, Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have now formally announced a Children’s Essay Contest to win a trip to Scotland for the release of  The Tales of Beedle the Bard. This contest, open to children ages 8-17 and begins today, requires the entrant to write a “an essay of 200 words or less describing how they
have helped others. B…

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Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have updated their website with a host of interviews with key members of the staff responsible for bringing the Harry Potter books to the readers. Contained in the new interviews available here, is confirmation they are creating new anniversary editions for all of the Harry Potter books, new insight of the various processes used in creat…

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Continue reading → Scholastic Updates with New Interviews from Key Staff on “Bard,” “Deathly Hallows,” and More

Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have updated their website with a host of interviews with key members of the staff responsible for bringing the Harry Potter books to the readers. Contained in the new interviews available here, is confirmation they are creating new anniversary editions for all of the Harry Potter books, new insight of the various processes used in creat…

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Continue reading → Scholastic Updates with New Interviews from Key Staff on “Bard,” “Deathly Hallows,” and More

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From the Scholastic press release:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally best-selling series, will be released in a special anniversary edition on September 23, 2008. The book, published by Scholastic, will feature exclusive bonus material from J.K. Rowling as well as new cover art and a four-color [...]

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Bloomberg.com and The Leaky Cauldron have the first two reports on Rowling’s visit to New York this morning (there is another one tonight). It looks like there were some very good questions!

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I will get to today’s MTV article, but first I want to recommend a wonderful, nearly 30 min. video of Mary GrandPré showing a room of Minnesota children how she draws Harry. It is just so awesome to watch his face emerge from the paper, and hear her …

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Raincoast Books has announced that J.K. Rowling will make an appearance at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre on October 23rd to do a reading, a question-and-answer session (yes!) and then sign books. This event will follow the three previously announced …

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Frontispiece, Deluxe edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Copyright 2007 Mary GrandPre.I am listening to a nice long (spoiler-free) interview of Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of the American editions of the books. Minnesota Public Radio’s …

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Take a look at video of Scholastic’s launch of “Potter Place” in New York. I wish I was there!So that’s how you pronounce Pensieve??? PON-siv, not PEN-seev.Update: Bandersnatch has translated the Futhorc runes that run around the edge of the Pensieve i…

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If I was putting together a dream dinner party, Arthur Levine would be one of the guests; he is always so articulate, book-focused, and informative.Well lucky us, The Washington Post has published another interview of the man who brought Potter to Amer…

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We came. We saw. We felt stupid. More on next weeks podcast. Unfortunately, wordpress is giving me a hard time uploading the pictures, but if you want to see them, we have an album on our facebook page (HP PROGNOSTICATIONS)- check it out and let us know what you think!!

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Hi everyone!  We forgot to mention this on episode 35, but if there are any listeners in the Baltimore, Washington, or Southern Pennsylvania area, we wanted to let y’all know that we will be going to the Knight Bus tour tommorow, on June 15.
 We will be at the Baltimore County Public Library stop of the tour:
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