Sugar Covered Quills

Currently playing in the Broadhurst theatre, Equus will officially open tomorrow, September 25. The play will have a strict run until February 8, 2009. For tickets and performances, head over to Telecharge. For now enjoy some of the production photos in the link.

***thanks to playbill and broadwayworld.com***

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Cheryl Klein opens up to MTV.com regarding her job and what does it takes to be an editor of one of the most popular children series. Ms. Klein is a continuity editor, which checks the errors in the story and makes sure that things and details in the story are consistent and on the right track. Here is an excerpt:

“Marcus Flint, who is the Slytherin Quidditch captain in books one and two, appears again in book three,” said Cheryl Klein, a senior editor at Arthur A. Levine Books, the Scholastic imprint that publishes the “Harry Potter” series in the U.S. “But he was said to be a sixth-year student in book one, which meant he should have graduated by book three. So that gave rise to this entire category of what we call ‘Flints,’ when fans find continuity errors after the fact.”

“It’s like having 6 million copy editors checking your work,” Klein said. “We really handle everything on a case-by-case basis, and we ask, for every letter, ‘Have we dealt with this before? Is this a valid concern?’ And some we fix ourselves, and others we talk to our British colleagues and J.K. Rowling.”

Some “mistakes” are just cases of British-to-American English translations — like how in the U.K. version, there can be both a ground floor as well as a first floor for the Ministry of Magic, as opposed to the U.S. version, in which the first floor opens out into the street. “At first, we changed a lot, because people didn’t know what was British versus just the magical world,” Klein said. “So as they got more and more familiar with it, we didn’t need to worry about that as much.”

To read more, click on the link above.

Also, in a new book called Harry, A History, JK Rowling has answered questions she may have been hesitant to answer before. In a short interview with the author, she said that Ms. Rowling was gracious to answer all her questions. Read by clicking on the link.

***thanks to MTV.com***

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Its been 10 years since the boy wizrd has cast its magic spell all over the world and now, after 5 movies and 7 books later, he is still as magical and popular ever. In celebration of this, Scholastic has released an anniversary cover and is conducting a cover-to-cover read for fans. Fans will have a chance to read some passages from the first book all day today. For those who cant come to Scholastic stores, you can view it via their website. Some movie stars are also expected to celebrate with Harry such as Marcia Gay Harden and Kacie Stroh.

***thanks to shcolastic.com***

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