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Signed By Author debs on 29 May 2008

Rowling’s hand-written Harry Potter prequel!

The news that J K Rowling has penned a hand-written prequel to the Harry Potter series has sparked a flurry of excitement all over the world! The 800 word storycard, signed by the author, is to be auctioned alongside works by other famous writers to raise cash for a dyslexia charity, closes with the words From the prequel I am not working on - but that was fun!

Source: CNN
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Signed By Author debs on 22 May 2008

Garrison Keillor book signings and performances




A Prairie Home Companion: Screenplay

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Garrison Keillor, creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has been drawing the crowds at book signings. There’s an enjoyable piece in The Muskegon Chronicle about his recent visit to Montague.

“I never thought I’d get to see him here. I’m a huge Garrison Keillor fan,” said Tracy Host of Muskegon, cradling a book or two for him to sign.

Fans came with books, photographs, poems, DVDs of his 2006 hit movie, “A Prairie Home Companion,” even an album from the 1970s for Keillor to sign.

Seven-year-old Katie Allyn, a second-grader from Montague, brought her “autograph dog” for the famous guy to sign next to her friends’ autographs from school.




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