[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR prone to old preconceptions about females?

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 41194

> Tim wrote:
> > One possibility is that JKR is over cautious about not alienating
> > boy readers. Though I cannot find the reference, I remember
> reading
> > that she used "J.K. Rowling" rather than "Jo Rowling" or "Joanne
> > Rowling" so that boys wouldn't be put off. I also came across this
> > interview snippet (from TODAY SHOW, NBC, 10/20/00,
> > http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/cookarama/nbctodayoct00.html):
> >


If I remember correctly, using J.K. rather than Joanne was not her own
decision but that of her publishers, who of course would be the ones
concerned with marketing.

Alina.


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