[HPforGrownups] B&N Chat

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 4247

Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer wrote:

> Overall, I was very disappointed by all the JKR events this week.
> Perhaps I put too much time & energy into it, but it was extremely
> disappointing to me that the same questions & themes were discussed over
> & over & over & over again.  I very much believe it was all set-up . . .
> just publicity stunts, mainly geared to young kids.

I get the impression that JKR really is perplexed by the public's interest
in her, and that she's not a smarmy ham (like Lockhart) so she doesn't
thrive on on author appearances, but she has a particularly soft spot for
the kids, and she's thinking of them particularly whe she does publicity.
So she's perhaps a bit more patient with repetitive questions than we would
be.  And I really do respect that.  Greedy adults that we are, we want our
questions answered right now, with no wasted time, thank you very much.  But
what she's interested in responding to the most is the starry-eyed kids who
are just discovering books for the first time.  For them, the questions they
ask are new, although she's heard them a million times.

I'm glad, at least, that she seems to be patient with them, even if we find
it difficult.  Her books have given so much joy to so many kids (as well as
us) that I would be sorry indeed if she started acting like a prima donna at
author appearances.

Peg