Jun 15 2007
J.K. Rowling Coming to the US
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Yes folks you read that right, J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, is coming on a small book tour to the United States in the fall of 2007. She plans on making only four stops, one in Los Angeles, one in New Orleans, and two in New York. But before you get excited and make plans to head on over to the closest location for a book reading and signing with Ms. Rowling you should know that for the majority of fans luck will probably not be on our side:
J.K. Rowling on U.S. Book Tour
J.K. Rowling is going on the road.
The British-born “Harry Potter” author will give four readings in the United States this fall, her first U.S. promotional tour since 2000, when she was just becoming an international sensation and had yet to give birth to her second and third children.
“What J.K. Rowling loves most is to talk with her readers, and that is what she will be able to do on this very special U.S. tour,” Lisa Holton, president of Scholastic Trade and Book Fairs, said Thursday in a statement.
Rowling’s seventh and final Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” comes out July 21, but will surely remain deep in her fans’ hearts when she arrives in the United States in October.
On Oct. 15, she will read at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, followed three days later by an appearance at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, then two readings Oct. 19 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Rowling, 41, will take questions at each of the readings and sign books.
Don’t bother rushing for tickets. For three of the readings, Scholastic will pick schools to send children. For the fourth reading, at Carnegie Hall, 1,000 fans will be chosen from a Scholastic sweepstakes, with each winner receiving two passes.
Details on the sweepstakes will be available July 30 on http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter.
This will be Rowling’s first US tour since 2000 and it is so completely limited and exclusive that I can’t help but to feel a bit disgusted. I mean really, what are we a bunch of lepers that Rowling can’t be bothered to tour here more regularly and when she does come it’s tiny little events that are, by and by, not open for the majority of her fans? And don’t give me that baloney that tours are expensive. There is no way Rowling is strapped for cash.
Thank you Rowling, I’m really feeling the love here.
These books are on my ‘to read’ list after getting them recommended by a friend. Got to see what everyone else sees in Mr. Potter, even at 34!
That’s kind of crappy. Much like how the Knight Bus is stopping in cities primarily in the NE and West Coast, with very few in between… practically nothing in the SE
Wow, that is seriously, seriously lame. I actually got excited at the beginning of your post. Guess I was wrong. Hmm.. I wonder why she’s doing it that way. It’s pretty obnoxious, if you ask me.
You know, I’ve always felt she was a snob, looking down on us “commoners.” Now she’s proved it.
If she held book signing in every town between here and there I wouldn’t go see her!
Don
Rowling does hardly any UK tours either - it’s not just the US. I think she’s great - from being a penniless single mum to the first woman writer on the US billionaires list? That’s gotta be a sign of talent. She writes such fantastic books that I couldn’t give a damn how many tours she does.