Harry ever after? - Times Online
With reference to the title of this entry, just consider for a moment what Barry Cunningham and the authors of Tunnels (see Guardian review, blogged futher down) will have thought on reading the folllowing:
Such is the desperation to get in on a $7 billion global business that when J. K. Rowling's original editor, Barry Cunningham, announced last month that he had found “the new Harry Potter” in a debut novel called Tunnels there was a flurry of publicity and many Hollywood studios instructed producers to bid for the rights without having read a word of it. A number of them read my reviews in The Times and asked my opinion, so I was able to tell them not to bother. There is far, far better stuff out there... ... AMANDA CRAIG
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