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HARRY POTTER - ROWLING PLANS POST-POTTER WORK

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* Rowling Battles Potter Fan In Court. Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Arrived At A New York Courthouse On Monday (14Apr08) To Begin Her Battle With A Fan Hoping To Release An Encyclopedia About The Fantasy Series.  Rowling Claims Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon Is A Rip-Off And Infringes On A Number Of Her Trademarks.  She Has So Far Managed To Stall The Publication Of The 400-Page Text. Initially Intended For Release Last November (07). And Hopes Her Latest Day In Court Will Result In It Being Scrapped Altogether. In A Declaration Filed In The U.S. District Court In February (08), Rowling Said She Was Very Frustrated That A Former Fan Has Tried To Co-Opt My Work For Financial Gain. I Feel Intensely Protective, Firstly, Of The Literary World I Spent So Long Creating, And Secondly, Of The Fans Who Bought My Books In Such Large Numbers.  Rowling Has Also Revealed She Plans To Write Her Own Potter Encyclopedia. Vander Ark's Publishers Rdr Books Insist The Book Would Promote The Sale Of Rowling's Work. And Accuse Her Of Appearing To Claim A Monopoly On The Right. To Publish Literary Reference Guides, And Other Nonacademic Research, Relating To Her Own Fiction. A Spokesperson Adds, This Is A Right No Court Has Ever Recognized. If Accepted, It Would Dramatically Extend The Reach Of Copyright Protection And Eliminate An Entire Genre Of Literary Supplements. (Ig/Wnwr/Jc). . J.K. Rowling. Leaving U.S. District Court Where She Testified Against The Michigan-Based Publisher Rdr Books To Stop Its Publication Of 'Harry Potter Lexicon', An Encyclopedic Tome About The World Of Wizards Taken From Her Widely Popular Books . New York City, Usa picture

Caption: * ROWLING BATTLES POTTER FAN IN COURT HARRY POTTER author J.K. ROWLING arrived at a New York courthouse on Monday (14Apr08) to begin her battle with a fan hoping to release an encyclopedia about the fantasy series. Rowling claims Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon is a rip....

ROWLING PLANS POST-POTTER WORK

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has said it would "feel wrong" to create another fantasy universe in her future literary works.

The phenomenally successful multimillionaire has been at the centre of attention since the final book in her septology, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published to critical acclaim last Saturday.

Rowling had indicated before the publication of the latest book that she felt it would not be right to continue following the doings of the magical world she created and has confirmed this leaning in an interview with the USA Today newspaper.

"I think that there will be some disappointment if I don't write another fantasy. But I must admit, I think I've done my fantasy. To go and create another fantasy universe would feel wrong, and I don't know if I'm capable of it," she said.

Instead Rowling explained she is already working on two new projects, one for children and one for adults. Many had felt she might struggle to come up with new material after the Potter saga drew to its end, but Rowling believes such anxieties are now firmly behind her.

"What's quite uplifting is that in the middle of all this sadness I feel about Harry ending - and I do feel a lot of sadness about it - is the thought that financially I don't have to publish immediately," she added.

"So I can take my time. And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. Heaven. No pressure."


27 July 2007 11:58:03


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