Rowling Severs Connection to Christopher Little Agency

[rattlesnakeroot]

A business pay-off is a rather strange ending to the relationship between JKR and publisher, Christopher Little, the famous publisher who gave her a chance when she was an unknown writer. I'm pretty sure we will never hear much backstory to this due to privacy agreements - when they say final, they mean final, as in airtight and legal - but it's

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[suo_gan]

*Insert obligatory Blair Witch Project joke here*

So much for loyalty.

[rattlesnakeroot]

I suppose this is why Hufflepuff isn't JKR's House of Choice. LOL

And maybe why Snape isn't her favorite character. Got to have one foot out the door like Lupin in case you change your mind, right?

[rattlesnakeroot]

OMG - I just got the Blair Witch Joke, too, LOL. hahaha - sorry, I need more coffee today.

[rattlesnakeroot]

That's true, but outsider status is all I have, and this was a public news story so I don't mind speculating.

Sounds as if Christopher Little didn't like the idea of Pottermore, so JKR and Neil Blair walked away. Then Little stalled the advance of the ebook thing and refused to sign off without more negotiations, leading to this pay-off. Originally ebooks were supposed to be available on Pottermore for the 2011 Christmas season.

[kamion]

It sort of explains why Pottermore is still stuck in frozen Beta-mud. a year or so lost to hazzle and dazzle with agencies about where to go.

Pottermore is in my opinion the most overrated expectation since the announcement of dead fish in the pond . A lot a hoolabaloo by a selected, but not select group, while the mainstream of HP has no access and no idea what is going on.
I would not cae one hoot of a demented owl for it was it not I don't know if any new cannon facts and backstories are reveiled at it.

Also slightly the feeling that by lack of better the "incrowd"-status of Pottermore is upheld to keep the hyping going.
There is nothing new to hype about since the last movie was released and Alan Rickman is passed over again for an Oscar,
so Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

[matts2068]

"I would not crae one hoot of a demented owl for it was it not I don't know if any new cannon facts and backstories are reveiled at it

[asphodeline]

Seems a sad ending to a strong partnership but also explains why Pottermore is stalled. My cynical side says she's struggling for publicity and something "new" to do now. Why do I get the feeling she likes things which can have an elitist level?