"Stop sending me paper!" pleas Rowling

JK Rowling has begged fans to stop a deluging her with paper.

The author underestimated her power when she complained in an interview about a lack of lined paper for sale in her home city of Edinburgh. Fans around the world, keen to speed along the Potter writing process, began sending her pad after pad.

"Be careful what you wish for – it might come true," she has now commented on her website. "Some of you sent single sheets, others entire pads.

"One enterprising paper merchants sent a large stack of notebooks embossed boldly with JK ROWLING, which I might not use in public, but which are very lovely all the same."

Others apparently send recommendations of paper retailers in the city, some even including maps.

She had earlier asked: "What is a writer who likes to write longhand supposed to do when she hits her stride and then realises, to her horror, that she has covered every bit of blank paper in her bag?"

Now it appears wizard fans have achieved their goal. "I've now got enough paper to write several book sevens," said Rowling. "So no excuse there."