Initials

[flying_ford_anglia]

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No: HPFGUIDX C4928
From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Re: Initials
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4924] Re: Animals, Initials and the movie.
Date: 7/23/00 1:31 pm  (ET)

<<As to the initial. In the papers today (or more correctly The Sunday
Mail - JKR's favourite paper)
there is a report saying that the K has been added to her initials to
appeal to more readers.>>

It would make sense, if she didn't have a middle name, to give her one: -

 - There was reportedly a move to disguise Rowling's sex, as the
 publishers felt that boys might not read a book written by a woman
 (a bit daft, in retrospect).

- I can think of very few authors using one initial only - it lessens
the impact somewhat. Remember those classics by H Wells, J Tolkien,
E Forster, C Lewis, P James et al.

- Fans would end up calling her 'JR', and get her confused with Larry
Hagman on a regular basis.

Simon - is it the Sunday Mail then (a Scottish newspaper, I think)? I
thought it was the Mail on Sunday.

Neil