I have hastily searched for a transcript to this interview and come up empty. I will do my best to rectify that.
Why? Because 2012 is an important year in Rowling Studies; it was the year Casual Vacancy was published, her first novel explicitly for adults and first publication post Potter, and we know now that she was neck deep in the planning and writing of the Strike-Ellacott books, the first of which would be published in April 2013. And The Ickabog and Christmas Pig, too? If memory serves, Nick Jeffery used the bread crumbs Rowling dropped in this interview about her current efforts and he predicted the existence of Pig well before that project was made public. Regardless, 2012 was a pivotal year and we need a transcript and annotated version.
If you want to read what Potter Pundits of the time thought were the most interesting and important Rowling droppings rather than listen to the fifty minute ‘virtual’ interview, check out the SnitchSeeker.com contemporaneous coverage of Rowling’s 2012 Potter Q&A. ‘Harry Potter Wiki’ has a page devoted to the event, too, one largely derived from SnitchSeeker’s summary.
More tomorrow!
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