Rowling threw the grenade...

[avidbeader]

Should she follow up with a nuclear warhead?

While replying on a H/Hr forum, I was racking my brain trying to think of whether an author has rewritten a book with significant changes after publication and could only think of Stephen King’s The Stand. And even then King only restored much of what had been cut - he didn’t make any changes to the

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[superbeffie]

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU STIR THE POT!! (That was an accidental capslock, but I'm leaving it because it goes with my feeling, lol)

[avidbeader]

Well, at first I thought I was being realistic and deep down I really don't expect there will be any "publishing corrections". But it was quite the eye-opener to Google and see that actually, yes, there have been quite a few do-overs in publishing.

[beege22]

Terry Pratchett should also be on that list. He wrote and had published 'The Carpet People' when he was seventeen and many years later, when he was famous enough that re-issuing his early work seemed like a good idea he was sufficiently bothered by the prose of his seventeen year old self that he rewrote it quite significantly before letting it be released.

As to Rowling . . . well, she dicks about in her own canon enough that why not?

[avidbeader]

So noted. I also forgot about Katherine Kurtz, who reissued the first book she published, supposedly with a lot of polishing (I have skimmed the re-do and it doesn't seem to have been changed at all, but I haven't done a side-by-side look).

[amandioka]

If she re-writes the book, it doesn't mean she will write h/hr (even though I hope very much she does)... but she could at least leave the crapilogue out of the re-written version.

[avidbeader]

I agree that killing the crapilogue would go a long way - she doesn't have to commit to H/Hr. Leaving it open to possibilities is what she should have done in the first place.

[ilexcassine]

Here here. Seems like there should be a petition somewhere. Rewrite! Rewrite! Rewrite! The masses demand it.

[avidbeader]

I don't know about a petition, but one long-time fan is trying to get this article from 2012 to go viral with sharing via Twitter/Facebook.

[smilie117]

Not sure if you saw or not, but you've been mentioned on Pottermore Insider (their official blog). I follow them on Twitter and sometimes I'll check out their links and I did with this one and I saw you were picked: http://insider.pottermore.com/2014/02/jk-rowlings-interview-with-emma-watson.html

[avidbeader]

I had not seen that - thanks for the heads-up!