J. K. Rowling Terrified in T.O.

Mayor Mel Lastman [Toronto\’s chief Muggle] gave J.K. Rowling the key to the city yesterday, and when she spoke at a fundaraiser for the Osborne Collection of the Toronto Library, she admitted she\’s just terrified about the big event. Part of the International Festival of Authors is a reading by Rowling at the Sky Dome, Never Been?(it\’s quite a place, worth the trip, wherever you are). Her biggest audience in the past was 2,000 in Germany, the Sky Dome holds 36,000. Did you know her friends call her Jo?

“The reading is a way to reach a lot of children. But I\’m plainly not a rock star, not the Rolling Stones.\’\’

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