Jo's OWN Words... Children's Books? Children's Publisher???

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 174503

---  "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> wrote:
>
> ---  "sistermagpie"  <sistermagpie@> wrote:
> >
> >> Allie:
> >> 
> >> You'll see them called "children's books" over and
> >> over in the media and elsewhere, but I don't think
> >> that was actually the author's intent. ..., she 
> >> just wrote the story that she envisioned, and it 
> >> was purchased in the US by Bloomsbury, ...

> > Magpie:
> > They got bought by the children's division 
> > Bloomsbury (in the UK) because that's where JKR 
> > correctly sent them--to a children's publisher. ...
> 

> Allie again:
> 
> I really don't know the answer to this one - but 
> didn't she send the story to many publishers initially
> and finally it was purchased by Bloomsbury?  Were they
> all children's publishers?
>

bboyminn:

JKR wrote the books for herself. Since they aren't 
filled with sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, she 
obviously wrote it for a general audience.

She sent that manuscript off to an AGENT. THE AGENT
then in turn tried to figure out who might buy it 
and tried to sell it to them. The AGENT tried many
publisher, all of whom turned the book down, until
Bloomsbury read and accepted the book. 

Bloomsbury publishes a range of fiction and non-fiction
books. Once they bought the book, they had to decide
who would buy it. Naturally they assumed children would
like a story about a boy wizard.

But, from the point the book touched the Agents hands,
it was all about marketing, not about writing.

JKR wrote the books for a general audience; the 
publisher decide to market them to children.

So says I.

Steve/bboyminn