I wasn't in town to attend the book festival, but came across this link on the Library of Congress Web site: Susan Cooper: 2011 National Book Festival. It's a webcast of Susan Cooper's appearance at the festival, where she talks about writing and about the fan outrage over That Movie. Here's the full transcript, but I've copied the best bit from it ( Read more... )

There was a brief segment on The Dark is Rising on today's All Things Considered. It had a interview segment where Susan Cooper basically said that she had nothing to do with the script for the new movie and that the changes in the script she saw were too extreme (all in a very polite, understated way of course).

Here's a place where you can ( Read more... )

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Couple of public posts (including mine) discussing the horror ( Read more... )