Today we have a new photo and information about JK Rowling’s appearance on Oprah, which will be shown on Friday, October 1st.  In the following quote, she talks about the U.S. book tour for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and the enormous pressure she felt.

There was this enormous Barnes & Noble, and I thought, oh my God. And the queue snaked up the street, up the Barnes & Noble, up through four floors and they took me in the back entrance. They opened the door and they screamed. They screamed….That’s a real stand-out moment for me. I knew it was getting big in that there was press attention and so on, but at that point, that for me…was when it felt ‘Beatle-esque.

You ask about the pressure. At that point, I kept saying to people, yeah I’m coping…but the truth was there were times when I was barely hanging on by a thread.

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