in case you haven't read these articles yet...

[Petra]

Hello!

I know that these articles are a bit on the 
old side but I don't think I've yet to come 
across references to them in this fandom...
and June *is* months away.  <g>  Hopefully 
they are new and of interest to someone here.

Somehow I had missed this transcript of a Q&A 
with the Cuarn brothers, Alfonso and Carlos, 
when it was published a year ago.  Though it 
has nothing to do with HP and everything to 
do with "Y Tu Mama Tambien," I thought it was 
an interesting interview and suspect some of 
you might too.  (If you want to avoid spoilers 
for the movie, I'd suggest you don't read the 
article!)

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/0303/mama.html

There are other articles of HP interest at 
this site.  Even older is the interview of 
Steve Kloves from Nov. 2001 that we've talked 
about in the past:

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1101/Kloves/Kloves.html

and a feature discussing one writer's experience 
at the national conference of the Society of 
Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1200/swimming.html

The piece about SCBWI includes the following quotes 
from Arthur Levine about the popularity of 
properties labeled "children's books" with 
Hollywood:

"Arthur Levine, J.K. Rowlings' editor at Scholastic 
and Harry Potter's high bidder ('I paid more than I 
wanted to') points to timing as a factor. 'It could 
be that Harry Potter was the first big children's 
book to arrive during the Internet age.' HP fans 
are able to spread their love for Harry and his 
magical exploits in a nanosecond. Word of mouth has 
become instantaneous and transcontinental faster 
than one can click reply to all. 'The film industry 
cares about making movies that everyone will care 
to see,' adds Levine."

Petra
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