Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been nominated a few times at the annual SyFy Genre Awards. Dan Radcliffe is nominated for Best Actor, Emma Watson for Best Actress. Order of the Phoenix is nominated for Best Film and is up against I Am Legend, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Iron Man and Stardust.  J.K. Rowling is up for the Gene Roddenberry Lifetime Achievement award.

Voting for the awards opens June 25 and goes until July 25. Winners will be announced in August during SyFy Portal�€™s 10th anniversary celebration.

Daniel Radcliffe and J.K. Rowling are both included in this year’s Forbes ‘Celebrity 100’ list!
JKR at # 9:

It was wizardry that transformed J.K. Rowling from a destitute single mother on welfare into a best-selling billionaire. Her adventures of teenage magician Harry Potter and his classmates at Hogwarts became a children’s literary sensation in 1998 with the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. It and the six subsequent books have now sold 375 million copies worldwide. The final one, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has sold 44 million since it was published last July, including 15 million in the first 24 hours.

Daniel Radcliffe was number 64

Last summer the British-born boy wizard, 18, signed a jaw-dropping contract worth an estimated $50 million to continue his leading role in the last two installments of the Harry Potter series. (The final story, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, has since split into two movies, meaning even more cash for him.) He also played the title role in the BBC’s TV movie My Boy Jack, a World War I story about Rudyard Kipling’s ill-fated son, and he’ll be baring all on Broadway in Equus.

If you haven’t already checked, you read the prequel JK Rowling wrote for charity online on Waterstone’s  official site. Or click More

It was so awesome! I wish it wasn’t only 800 words. But JK Rowling will not be writing a full prequel so its the best we are going to get. Enjoy!!!!

If you recall, JK Rowling wrote a prequel to the Harry Potter series that was auctioned off today and sold for £25,000 ($48,855 U.S.)

J.K. Rowling’s handwritten prequel to the “Harry Potter” novels fetched 25,000 pounds ($48,855) at a charity auction in London tonight. The signed, 800-word tale was one of 13 “storycards” written on sheets of A5 paper being offered by Waterstone’s, a U.K. bookseller. The signed piece concludes with the teasing words “from the prequel I am not working on — but that was fun!”

Fans will be able to read the prequel online tomorrow (June 11th) on Waterstone’s  official site

Today I have new Order of the Phoenix Promo pictures thanks to Oclumencia.

See those HERE!

We also have some larger versions of JK Rowling at Harvard, HERE!

As you know, JK Rowling is the principal speaker at this year’s Harvard Commencement ceremony. She arrived at Harvard yesterday evening to attend a reception at Loeb House before the annual dinner for honorary degree candidates. Pictures from the event can be seen at the following links or HERE in the gallery: