Melissa of TLC has posted another segment from her interview with JK Rowling for her book Harry A History.

JKR: “Have they got it from my hard drive?” I’m so ignorant about PC’s – I would think, “Can they? Can they crawl through the wires and get it? Physically? In little balaclavas?”
Every time my computer did anything that computers do, freeze or something, it would always cross my mind and I’d think, ‘what have I let happen?’
At the very final stages of seven, I did take everything off my PC completely and it was just on the laptop, and I even resented having to think like that, but this was the last book, and I so wanted people to get it in paper form to read, and not from a scam or a spoiler. So i did get a little bit more security conscious right at the end.

MA: So it was never connected to the internet?
JKR: Yeah. Actually, no, that’s not true. I did connect it to the Internet – what am I saying? [laughs] I did. But I did treat it all with a little bit more reverence. But actually, yes, I did connect it to the Internet so what’s the difference? Oops. It’s so nice to be able to say these things now.

MA: It must be a relief…
“Yeah, it’s so liberating. I wouldn’t ever willingly go back to that. Definitely people would find that hard to believe. ‘Come on. Look at the money you’ve made.’ You know what? I wouldn’t ever want to live with that kind of stress again. I miss writing Harry so much, but still, to an extent, what makes me resistant to the idea of a book eight or a novel eight, is the knowledge of stepping back into that hothouse.
“People will be vomiting to hear me say this because I know how lucky I was to be published, and I know how lucky I am to have had the success, and I thank God every day for it, and unpublished writers everywhere will be throwing things at your book if they read this, but still…they haven’t lived with the stress of it. It was sometimes a lot of pressure.”

J.K. Rowling attended the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Annual Fundraising Gala dinner today and pictures have appeared online.  You can view photos of here over at JK Rowling Fan!

Emma Watson will also be attending the dinner.

The Times Online reports that the Michelle Obama will be spending part of her trip in London at a special dinner where author JK Rowling will be in attendance.

It is among the trickiest of decisions for any hostess. But when Sarah Brown was deciding who to put next to Michelle Obama at tonight’s dinner for summit spouses in 10 Downing Street, she had years of experience in public relations to draw on.

Seated on one side of Mrs Obama will be J. K. Rowling, the author; on the other will be Kelly Holmes, the double Olympic gold medallist.

Thanks Mugglenet!

J.K. Rowling has been nominated in the Glamour magazine Women of the Year awards 2009 in the ‘writer’ category for The Tales of Beedle the Bard.  Other Harry Potter stars have also been nominated; Dawn French (the Fat Lady) for her autobiography Dear Fatty and Julie Walters (Mrs. Weasley) for her autobiography That’s Another Story.

You can vote HERE.

J.K. Rowling has been presented with the French Legion of Honor (Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur) by President Nicolas Sarkozy.  The entire ceremony can be viewed (in French) below. Jo is Knighted at about 6:30 minutes into the interview:

Melissa Anelli has posted another part of her interview with JK Rowling where Rowling admits being behind the company that was releasing fake book titles.

MA: It was you guys?
JKR: It was just – we had to find a way to [keep some confusion out there] and it worked. I don’t even think there was just one company doing it, I think we had several fronts putting up titles. [One of them was called “Stone Connect.” It seems were others as well.]
MA: Just to shroud it, confuse the issue?
JKR: Yeah. As soon we knew it was going to go up on the site, we just needed to keep a little bit of confusion going for those last few hours before we got it out there.