In 1997 Bloomsbury took a punt on first-time novelist Joanne Rowling, publishing 500 hard back copies (yours then for £10.95) and 5,150 paperbacks (£4.99) of her 1995 children’s book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Recast as J.K. Rowling (boys eschew women writers, apparently), over 500 million copies of the wizard’s adventures have been … Continue reading "J.K. Rowling Sketches And Plot Outlines For Harry Potter"
