During the capstone project, we were assigned to find someone to interview. The purpose of the interview is to gain more information on the topic by talking to an expert. You needed to have 10 questions to ask the expert and their response would help you learn more and give you a better understanding of your topic.

 I thought about possible people to interview. It was challenging to think of someone to interview because no one would respond and I didn’t know who would be able to give me good answers about JK Rowling. I came up with the idea of interviewing someone who worked at Bloomsbury, but no one responded. I kept thinking and realized the person can be from a different publishing house and I can ask questions about the publishing process. Someone named Tim Burgard who works at HarperCollins responded. I was so excited and I quickly got to work on my questions. It was a little hard to come up with questions because I needed to think about questions he would be able to answer and I needed to make sure I never repeated anything.  Eventually, I got ten good questions to ask him! I was very relieved to have all the questions because it took me a while to come up with. I had to revise a lot of them to make sure they were on topic about his company and his job. 

 I called on March 17, 2022. Tim gave me a lot of information about the publishing process. I was really happy with the answers. He told me about how to figure out if a book is good enough to be published and how they would figure out which books would get famous. It gave me a better understanding of why a lot of publishing companies declined Harry Potter. It was so interesting. Conducting the interview was fun and easy because all I had to do was ask the questions. It was also fun because I like doing interviews and getting to ask questions and get feedback and answers. 

The interview was so fun and I learned so much more by listening to Tim Burgard talk about the process! I am looking forward to more activities and learnings on JK Rowling and I am super excited to continue with this amazing and fun project, the capstone!