This blog began in 2003 as Mrs. Rabbitt's Bookbag and continued as From the Library Director from 2005-2010. You can read my newspaper columns at FromtheLibraryColumn published Thursdays in the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Publishing Perils

From the Writer's Almanac:
On this day in 1954 the first part of the Lord of the Rings was published. JRR Tolkien spent 17 years working on the trilogy.


His publisher nor his public gave him the same pressure that JK Rowling had for Harry Potter!