Release date announced one year ago today!

[mstattersall]

<jennivirides at y...> wrote:
> As The Leaky Cauldron has very kindly reminded me, last year on the 
> 15th of January, Bloomsbury and Scholastic gave us the news we had 
> been waiting for for so long: a release date for OotP. 
> So I was wondering, how did you hear about it? Where were you? What 
> did you do? How did you feel (apart from the obvious)?

I have one of those big digital display clocks that counts down to a 
selected date, so I set it for midnight June 15, put in my office 
window facing a busy downtown street, and put a simple sign 
reading "Harry Potter 5" in its "occasion" sign holder. Everyone 
passing by knew how much longer until the new HP book, and it drew 
attention to my company! The independent bookstore down the street 
thanked me for the free publicity, also. Later, when the cover art 
was released, I downloaded it and added it to the sign. 
Ms. Tattersall