Apparently
being the highest earning novelist of all time doesn't stop you from
getting a case of distraught writer's block at the thought of fan
publishing an encyclopedic reference guide to the world you created.
Steven Vander Ark's
Harry Potter Lexicon
went online 1999, and was wildly popular. Rowling even reported being
fond of it and checking it herself while out writing. But once he got a
contract to publish it as a book she cried foul and, with the kind
assistance of Time Warner, sued.
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