![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t know I could do that,” says James, two days after BookCon during her first official visit to Toronto as an author. And I’m now getting the same response with my books. “There is nothing more wonderful than escaping into a book that doesn’t let you go. She recently rewatched the first Harry Potter movie, which prompted her to buy the rest of the films, and now wants to read J.K. It goes back to her childhood (birth name, Erika Mitchell) in southeast England, loving the Osmond family on television. This year, a few of James’s dedicated fans flew in from the Dominican Republic just to meet her while she promoted The Mister, her first stand-alone novel without randy provocateur Christian Grey.ĭespite her celebrity status, James, now 56, still feels the seductive pull of fandom. It’s an astonishing scene as lines of eager readers snake around the enormous Javits Convention Center nervously clutching their books in anticipation of those precious moments in front of their favourite writers. ![]() In early June, James appeared for the first time at BookCon in New York City, a one-day event where authors are as revered as rock stars. It’s a cheeky reminder that James’s fanfic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s teen-vamp Twilight series became the cultural phenomenon we now either love or hate as the whip-smarting blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey. The hashtag stands out on her slim Twitter bio, an understatement by any social media measure. E L James may be the world’s most famous #fangirl. ![]()
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