The increasingly reclusive JK Rowling is limiting her contacts with the press. “Rowling has refused to grant interviews to British journalists for two years. Her only contact with the media on the release of the new book will be through ‘cub reporters’ under 16, who will be selected for a ‘press conference’ through competitions. Emerson Spartz, an 18-year-old student from Indiana, was asleep at 9am when his telephone rang. A Scottish voice asked ‘Hello, Emerson? This is Jo. You believe me, don’t you’?”