J.K. Rowling Rules the Roost

Ola conquistadores (:

For reference please turn to page 20 of StarMag on Sunday, 21st December 2008.

This article finally gave me a cure for writer's block, which is extremely cruelllll....I guess everything goes on alternately like in November it was MegaBlog-buster but writer's block struck in December.

So as you all know The Tales of Beedle the Bard was released on December 4th worldwide. And me, trusting Wikipedia too much again, thought that it wouldn't be released here in Malaysia. But then, after chatting with Aisy(thanken yousa) she said she wanted to read it badly, and so I checked out MPH and Popular and Borders. Finally, they called back and said it was available. And I was feeling so stupid to wait for 2 days before getting it :( Anyway, I rushed to Popular and got it for a discounted RM34! See Aisy, just 3 hours after chatting with you...

Beedle the Bard was okay,I guess. Definitely not up to HP standards, but what can you expect. It was a good read especially the parts of Dumbledore's footnotes..so perasannn..

I could've finished it in 1 hour, but instead I took my time stalling here and there. So after 3 days I finally finished it.

This brings me back to the article in The Star. It was written by a Potterhead ( that's what she called herself) and some of the things struck me about it. JKR is so influential that she managed to auction a book for RM10.5 million!!!!! I mean, who else would write something so highly demanded? And thankfully, JKR had sense to release it to the public.

Let me quote from the article ;
" Truth be told, I am in awe of Rowling's sense of timing and marketing-savvy; After all the new teen obsession with Stephanie Meyer's Twilight " :O

" When TTBB was released on Dec 4 this year, it immediately booted Meyer's Breaking Dawn of the No. 1 spot. ( Sold more than 2.6 million copies in 2 weeks)"

I know, IN YOUR face...muhahahaha...

No, wait there's more. TTBB is the fastest selling book in 2008! And Deathly Hallows IS THE FASTEST SELLING BOOK OF ALL TIME!!!" Beat the Meyer freaks..