From , May 28, 2008
J. K. Rowling drew a line under Harry Potter with the seventh and final book last summer. But it seems the line is distinctly shaky: a year on, and she’s already crossed it, with a Potter prequel.
(Bill Haber)
Author J. K. Rowling
The one-off 800-word handwritten “storycard” hardly counts as a book, but that won’t stop bidders at Waterstone’s on June 10, when – with the assistance of Sotheby’s – it goes on auction for writers’ charity English PEN and Dyslexia Action. “There is just no telling how high the bidding will go,” Sotheby’s specialist Philip Errington said, and with good reason – one of seven handwritten copies of Rowling’s book of stories The Tales of Beedle the Bard netted 1.95 million for charity in 2007, the highest ever price achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript.
The storycard finishes with the words “From the prequel I am not working on – but that was fun!” and is signed J. K. Rowling, 2008. It will be sold alongside 12 other storycards, written by A-list authors such as Margaret Atwood and Tom Stoppard. In August a printed postcard book featuring all 13 stories will go on sale, with profits going to English PEN and Dyslexia Action... [article continues]
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