She calls herself Jo and has said, 'No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry.' Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. If you just go ‘grim, grim, grim’, viewers will simply disengage.' So here's what Phelps did.Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Nobody wants a finger wagged in their face. 'Also, what works in a novel doesn’t always work on screen. 'It’s still heartbreaking, but I had to find some kind of redemptive moment at the end of it all, that sense that after the tragedy, someone gets to stand with a slightly straighter back,' Phelps told the Radio Times. Rowling, $12.02, Amazonĭuring an interview about her process adapting the novel, The Casual Vacancy miniseries' writer Sarah Phelps stated that he knew one major thing had to be changed from book to screen: The ending. Part 3, however, sees BBC & HBO change the end of The Casual Vacancy.

The series definitely had to take liberties with its source material, but overall in Parts 1 and 2 of the miniseries nothing of great significance was really changed too much. The book and series follows the townspeople of Pagford as they debate over whether to keep intact a local community center - Sweetlove House - that houses programs for underprivileged youth and recovering drug addicts in need of rehabilitation. The novel is well-written, at times difficult to read, at times a bit slow, but overall quite an emotional and wonderful experience, and clearly BBC and HBO agreed as they adapted the The Casual Vacancy miniseries from the best seller. Do you think after she wrote the Harry Potter series, she just felt this overwhelming desire to create a world where everything is just depressing all the time? Because that's precisely what she did with The Casual Vacancy.

Sometimes I wonder about JK Rowling's mindset.

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