Scholastic has sent over a new image of JK Rowling with Oprah to mark her appearance on the Oprah Show this Friday, October 1st.
You can see it here.
While talking with Winfrey about the sudden success of the Harry Potter books, Rowling reveals the moment when she knew that her life had changed forever. It was while in the United States on her second book tour: "There was this enormous Barnes & Noble, and I thought, oh my God. And the queue snaked up the street, up the Barnes & Noble, up through four floors and they took me in the back entrance. They opened the door and they screamed. They screamed....That's a real stand-out moment for me. I knew it was
getting big in that there was press attention and so on, but at that point, that for me...was when it felt 'Beatle-esque.'"
Rowling also reveals to Winfrey that coping with the pressures of sudden stardom was not easy: "You ask about the pressure. At that point, I kept saying to people, yeah I'm coping...but the truth was there were times when I was barely hanging on by a thread."
You can go here to see when the show will air in your area. We'll keep you updated about viewing it online!
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