Did you know? J.K. Rowling / Sabias que? J.K. Rowling

 

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Did you know? J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling lived with her sister while she was completing the first book of Harry Potter. She was struggling to get by financially as she was unemployed and a single mother.

The idea of the Dementors is based on Rowling's experiences of clinical depression in her 20s. Rowling's depression even went so far as to consider suicide in those early days.

She has the same birthday as Harry Potter. For those of you wondering, the date is 31st July.

Her first Harry Potter manuscript was rejected by 12 publishers. Bloomsbury, the publishing house that eventually published her first Harry Potter story, was a small indie publisher back in the 90s.

She is a philanthropist and has donated millions to different charities and organisations. In 2009, she donated the proceeds of the two Potter companion books to Comic Relief  — a total estimated at over £17 million and counting.

Rowling was a producer for most of the film adaptations of her book. Initially she was only a consultant for the film scripts.

Words related to the world of literature / Palabras relacionadas con el mundo de la literatura

 

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Words related to the world of literature

Abibliophobia: Irrational fear of being without books. Many people feel it when they cannot get a much-desired book, or they leave a book forgotten in a hotel.

Bibliobulimic: Someone who reads too much.

Bibliographer: A person who knows about books, especially old ones, dedicated to locating them and writing about them.

Bibliopola: It is the person who is dedicated to selling books, a bookseller, book dealer.

Bibliomancy. Form of divination that consists of opening a book to a random page and interpreting what is said there.

Bibliophile: A person who is fond of books, especially rare editions. It is a form of collecting both for its physical beauty and the content.

Bibliognosta: With Latin roots. Its meaning is someone who knows the smallest details about the publication of a book such as the number of editions, its dates and places of printing or who printed it.

Bibliokleptomania: Like kleptomania, subjects that tend to take an object that doesn't belong to them, in this case, books.

Did you know? Edgar Allan Poe / Sabias que? Edgar Allan Poe

 

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 Did you know?  Edgar Allan Poe

His birth name was Edgar Poe, but when he was three, his parents died, and he was adopted by Virginia businessman John Allan, who renamed the kid Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe was an accomplished boxer, long jumper, rower, and swimmer. He held a local record for swimming seven miles against the current up the James River in Richmond, Virginia.

For decades, he worked as a freelancer. He edited poetry anthologies, worked as a literary critic, wrote a textbook, and published works of scientific theory.

He Published His First Book At the age of 18 years old.

In 1849, he disappeared for five days. When Edgar was found by a friend, he was in a confused and incoherent state, desperate for medical attention. Four days later, he died, having never regained lucidity and after calling out the name “Reynolds” multiple times hours before he died.

Poe joined the United States Army as a private in 1827. He enlisted in the First Regiment of Artillery and moved up the ranks to Sergeant Major for Artillery, having impressed his superiors in only two years.

Edgar Was The First American Professional Writer.

He Married His 13-Year-Old Cousin, While it was common for first cousins to marry, it was less common for them to have a 14-year age gap because Poe was 27 when they married.

In the winter of 1847, Poe's wife, Virginia, died of tuberculosis. She was 24. He never recovered from her death; many of Poe's stories and poems about dying and dead women were written during the period of Virginia's illness.

Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 story The Murders in the Rue Morgue is known as the first detective fiction story.

What is fanfiction? / Que es ficción de fans?

 

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What is fanfiction?

Fanfiction, also called fanfics, are fiction stories written by fans of a particular work. That original work can be anything: a book, TV show, movie, video game, even a gaming podcast. People write fan fiction because they are big fans of their chosen story, and want to create more of it.
People say it's a great way to get started with writing, because a lot of the work has been done for you. Characters, settings and plots are already there to be customised, changed and adapted.
This tecnique has encountered problems with intellectual property law due to usage of copyrighted characters without the original creator or copyright owner's consent. While many authors (for example, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, D.J. MacHale, Stephenie Meyer, and Terry Pratchett) do not take issue with authors of derivative works, a number of authors do. They may request that fan-fiction archival sites remove and ban any pieces of fan fiction based on their original works. “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare is inspired by “Harry Potter.” “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood is inspired by “Star Wars.” “Beautiful Bastard” by Christina Lauren is inspired by “Twilight.” “We'd Know by Then” by Kirsten Bohling is inspired by “Star Wars.” But Disney's copyrighted material, such as fan fiction, remixes, or adaptations, without obtaining permission, can be considered copyright infringement. This can also include creating new stories or characters within Disney World without authorisation.