An 800-word Harry Potter prequel hand-written by J.K. Rowling on (get this) a card will be auctioned off by Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd. in London, along with 12 other card-sized works by authors and illustrators such as Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, novelist Margaret Atwood and playwright Tom Stoppard.
The proceeds will go to English PEN, a writers' association, and the British charity Dyslexia Action. Copies of the cards will be collated into a book that will be available at the bookstore and online in August.
Rowling wrote the prequel on both sides of the card, reported to be slightly bigger than a postcard. I still think she must have written really, really tiny to fit 800 words on something that size.
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