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• Harry Potter: Icons of the decade

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 170
  He was the first new global superhero of the 21st century - a character with universal appeal Both statistically and artistically, its unlikely, in any given decade, that a new British fictional character will emerge to match the name-recognition, sales and cinematic bankability of Peter Pan, ... The Leaky Cauldron ...
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• Potter books are given to charity

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 170
  A Harry Potter villain has donated valuable books to the British Heart Foundation in Keighley. TheDailySnitcher found this 115 minutes ago on keighleynews.co.uk Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Harry Potter , Harry Potter , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , Foundation , ...
  9 hours ago

• Death Eater donates first editions of Harry Potter to the British Heart Foundation

  
  FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog — Authority: 133
  Actor Michael Thompson, who plays a Death Eater in the latest Harry Potter movie, has donated the complete set of Harry Potter first editions to the British Heart Foundation charity shop in Keighley.For the past few years Mr Thompson has been collecting first editions of JK Rowling’s famous books. They are currently ...
  11 hours ago

• On Writing: How to Break the "Eliminate Bland Adjectives Rule" & Get Away With It!

  
  To Elysia and Back Again — Authority: 103
  My Institute for Children’s Literature * curriculum encourages writers to use specific rather than general words. For instance, using blue jay instead of bird and cobalt instead of blue conveys a specific picture. They gave us an exercise in which we had to replace bland, boring adjectives with more specific ones. ...
  14 hours ago

• The Trouble with Blogging, or: A Writer’s Dilemma

  
  Will in the World — Authority: 103
  J ust read a post by Jane over at dearauthor.com: “Books as a Business” . It’s a mostly good article with some interesting analysis, though I would change the title, at least; books are what we read, while publishing is a business. Which aligns with my previous couple of posts, staying on the theme of writing ...
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• Story is key

  
  Day By Day Writer — Authority: 120
  Revision update: Got a bunch of good work in yesterday. Nothing yet today, but I plan to get to work after this post. I found a great post on Larry Brooks’ Storyfix.com today, Get Published, Part 6–Avoid the Common Pitfalls . Brooks offers up six problems that get a manuscript a quick rejection, but the best ...
  3 days ago

• The fantasy genre’s strong showing amongst Amazon’s book and author’s of the decade

  
  FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog — Authority: 133
  The final and penultimate books in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series were the top-selling books of the last decade, according to list released by Amazon. Stephenie Meyer also showed well in the list with three of her vampire romance novels appearing in third, fourth and fifth position.Rowling was, unsurprisingly, ...
  3 days ago

• On Writing: How to Break the "No Passive Voice Rule" & Get Away With It!

  
  To Elysia and Back Again — Authority: 103
  Stephen King, in his book On Writing , gives almost the best definition of passive voice I’ve read. “Verbs come in two types, active and passive. With an active verb, the subject of the sentence is doing something. With a passive verb, something is being done to the subject of the sentence. The subject is ...
  3 days ago

• Amazon: top 10 best-selling books of the decade

  
  ShowHype - Top Celebrity Gossip News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 172
  The online retailer Amazon.co.uk has revealed its top 10 highest-selling books of the decade, with Harry Potter and Twilight featuring heavily. The Leaky Cauldron - News found this 23 hours ago on telegraph.co.uk Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Celebrities , Stephenie Meyer , ...
  5 days ago

• Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince: Special Edition

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 438
  Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham CarterWritten By: J.K. Rowling, Steve KlovesDirected By: David YatesStudio: Warner Bros.Buy On Amazon.comHarry Potter keeps getting darker and ...
  1 week ago

• Tom Felton & Bonnie Wright to attend Harry Potter theme park opening in May 2010

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 170
  Actors Tom Felton, Jessie Cave, Bonnie Wright, Dave Legeno, and James and Oliver Phelps were interviewed by Canadas The Magazine (http://themagazine.ca/) last month from the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Jessie noted that she will take part in some of the battle sequences for... The Leaky Cauldron - ...
  1 week ago

• In pictures: British Comedy Awards

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 170
  Peter Kay and JK Rowling Outstanding achievement-winner Peter Kay joked that he wanted to thank people who had bought tickets to his sell-out tour next year, for "selling them on eBay". Harry Hill Harry Hills TV Burp was named best entertainment programme for the third time in four years. John ... TheDailySnitcher ...
  1 week ago

• Daniel Radcliffe to Appear Nude in the movie “Harry Potter”

  
  Blog For Noob Dot Com | Noob Blogger — Authority: 126
  Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is set to have several nude scenes in the upcoming film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final chapter in British author J.K. Rowling’s hugely popular series of children’s books and whose first part is due to be released on November 2010 and the second on ...
  1 week ago

• Warners gives “Potter” fans extras actually worth watching

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 528
  Poring through bonus features to DVDs may sound like easy work, but it gets pretty tedious after a while. We get it, you’ve just made the greatest movie of all time. Now please get in line with everyone else, because so did they. Props, then, to the people behind the “ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ” ...
  1 week ago

• Harry Potter Star Tom Felton Raves About Deathly Hallows Showdown

  
  ShowHype - Top Movies News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 170
  Its all been building to this: the battle to the death between Harry Potter and his Dark Arts-enabled adversary Voldemort on the hallowed grounds of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Devotees of J.K. Rowlings boy-wizard series already know how the clash ends in the final book, ... The Leaky Cauldron - ...
  1 week ago

• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, DVD review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is immeasurably better than its predecessors. Rating: * * *
  1 week ago

• First Look at ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ Part One

  
  The Flickcast — Authority: 146
  With the screen adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows getting split into two films, the first of which hits theaters next November, we’re just now getting a glimpse at the first scenes from the film. The book was claimed to be too epic in size by Warner Bros. to be released as one film, so it will be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Teaser

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 144
  Entertainment Weekly recently did a special feature on the best of the decade. At the top of the list was Harry Potter. I can see that, considering how he had an entire decade to dominate movie screens and bookshelves. (Though, I would rather see Potter packing an AK-47 instead of a magic wand.) Now with Harry ...
  2 weeks ago

• “…DEATHLY HOLLOWS” FOOTAGE MAKES ITS WAY TO THE WEB

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 541
  The HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS featurette from this week’s upcoming HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE DVD has made it’s way to the web. Not sure how long it’ll remain so enjoy it while you can. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE debuts on DVD 12/8. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Quidditch Pitch

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 556
  Lauren Edelson is a smart, high-achieving high school senior. She’s been visiting some of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation, trying to imagine herself at each of these schools. Unfortunately, she’s been a little underwhelmed : Back when I was a junior, before I’d printed off an application or ...
  2 weeks ago

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