Jim Hill

Entertainment journalist and Walt Disney Company expert

Building on the success of Hogsmeade, Hogwarts Castle and the award-winning "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" attraction, Universal Orlando Resort and Warner Bros. Entertainment today announced an expansion of historic proportion.

Marie Woolf

Founder, CEO, creator and executive editor, Woolf Media www.woolfmedia.net

Just as we thought that we'd finally stuck a fork in it, a calculating, middle-aged gal named Erika Leonard, that's E. L. James to you and me, became the UK's bestselling author ever, making an estimated $1.34 million a week from Fifty Shades of Gray. And that was back in June.

Victoria Campa

High school senior in Madrid, Spain

JK Rowling's new adult novel "A Casual Vacancy" lacks wands and a scar-branded young hero, yet it is a refreshing change from the author who never ceases to amaze.

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Products, people, places, causes and companies making a difference

Here, we present ten celebrities epitomizing the beauty of humanitarianism in ways about which we're betting even the hosts of E!'s Fashion Police can't find anything to criticize.

Charyn Harris

Educator, Community Leader and Arts Advocate

I am always thinking about the messaging that we are sending our young girls. As an educator and a parent, I have a huge amount of concern about the images that our girls are being exposed to.

David Kudler

Publisher, Stillpoint Digital Press

When well employed, time travel and prophecy can both increase a story's effectiveness, even as they seem to be short-circuiting it.

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Keilin Huang

Book Lover

"Hey, how would you like to see Jo tonight?" Jo? Jo who? But then it dawned on me. Oh. My. Goodness. Jo. As in, Joanne "Jo" Rowling.

Danielle Tumminio

Author, 'God and Harry Potter at Yale'

It was hard for me to love these characters. More than once, I thought of putting the book down because these characters are so real, so raw, that they become dislikable and at the same time, curiously familiar. They remind me of the neighbors Jesus calls me to love.

T. Sher Singh

Editor, sikhchic.com

It is an excellent read. More importantly for me, though, it is the kind of book that I have dreamed about having the world's prominent authors write about: with Sikh characters and references, but as a normal, ordinary part of the narrative, not in the form of lectures and essays.

Emily Layden

Stanford alumnus, writer, teacher, coach

The news that J.K. Rowling would publish a novel for adults was greeted generally in predictable ways: with excitement, trepidation and skepticism in equal measures.

Edd McCracken

Columnist, Book Riot

Let me be among the first to warn JK Rowling off. The last thing the world needs is a literary George Lucas.

Jason Pinter

Bestselling thriller writer

Dear Mrs. Rowling, let me state for the record that I have not read your new novel, The Casual Vacancy, and though I have not skimmed one single page, I must be honest about the depth of your deception, lies, and skullduggery.

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Dave Astor

Author, 'Comic (and Column) Confessional'

With the often-ridiculous U.S. presidential race in full swing, there's at least a 47 percent chance you'd like to forget about politicians for a few hours by immersing yourself in a novel. But be careful which novel you choose, because some of them feature ... politicians!

Deji Olukotun

Creativity, Law, and Human Rights

Harry Potter is now the most banned book in America, according to the American Library Association. But these books have taught children to read, to think, to write and to criticize, all hallmarks of free expression.