Steve's new HP book approved

[geri_chan]

Some good news: according to this news post on HPANA, Steve Vander Ark's new book, "In Search of Harry Potter," has been approved for publishing by JKR's lawyers. As I had mentioned in this earlier post, JKR's agents had asked to review the book to make sure it doesn't violate any copyrights. A rather petty move, in my opinion, since it was obviously a travel memoir rather than a reader's guide or encyclopedia, but at least the book is good to go now, and I'm looking forward to buying it as soon as it becomes available. (I notice that neither Leaky nor Mugglenet reported on this HP-related news--is this an anti-Steve bias, not wanting to report anything positive about him or maybe not wanting to encourage people to buy his book? I'd expect that from Leaky, but I thought that Mugglenet was at least attempting to be objective.)

I'm trying to polish up my Petshop fic "Decisions," and hope to have it up by tomorrow night.