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September 27, 2012, Thursday
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J.K. Rowling plans to return to writing for young people and the author says she doesn't rule out another book set in Harry Potter's magical world.
Rowling became the world's most successful living writer with her seven novels about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and is pitched into battle against the forces of evil.
Rowling's first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," is published today, five years after the release of the last volume in the Potter saga.
The 47-year-old author told the BBC that her next book would be "for slightly younger children than the Potter books."
And she said that while "where Harry's story is concerned, I'm done," she was considering a new story set in the same universe.
"I don't want to go mechanically back into that world and pick up a load of odds and ends and glue them together and say, 'Here we go, we can sell this,'" Rowling said yesterday. "It would make a mockery of what those books were to me.
"But if I did have a great idea for something else, I probably would do it. I am very averse to the prequel-sequel idea. A sidestep could maybe ... well, we'll see."
"The Casual Vacancy" is the story of a local election that exposes deep rivalries and dark secrets in a seemingly picture-perfect English village. It's decidedly grown-up in theme and subject, touching on issues including drug addiction, poverty and self-harm.
The book is virtually guaranteed to top the bestseller lists in Britain, the United States and beyond, with Rowling's name enough to attract millions of buyers and give publishers and book stores a much-needed boost.
Yet even that may feel something of an anti-climax for an author who has re-written the rules of publishing and generated the kind of media hype and public hysteria normally reserved for Hollywood royalty.
As each Harry Potter instalment hit the shelves, hundreds of thousands of fans dressed up as wizards and witches and queued outside book stores from Toronto to Tokyo, and the sales figures were staggering - 450 million copies and counting.
Rowling said she was looking forward to a more subdued book launch this time around.
"As much as is possible I wanted this to be a normal book publication," she told USA Today in one of a handful of newspaper interviews she gave to promote the novel.
Rowling became the world's most successful living writer with her seven novels about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and is pitched into battle against the forces of evil.
Rowling's first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," is published today, five years after the release of the last volume in the Potter saga.
The 47-year-old author told the BBC that her next book would be "for slightly younger children than the Potter books."
And she said that while "where Harry's story is concerned, I'm done," she was considering a new story set in the same universe.
"I don't want to go mechanically back into that world and pick up a load of odds and ends and glue them together and say, 'Here we go, we can sell this,'" Rowling said yesterday. "It would make a mockery of what those books were to me.
"But if I did have a great idea for something else, I probably would do it. I am very averse to the prequel-sequel idea. A sidestep could maybe ... well, we'll see."
"The Casual Vacancy" is the story of a local election that exposes deep rivalries and dark secrets in a seemingly picture-perfect English village. It's decidedly grown-up in theme and subject, touching on issues including drug addiction, poverty and self-harm.
The book is virtually guaranteed to top the bestseller lists in Britain, the United States and beyond, with Rowling's name enough to attract millions of buyers and give publishers and book stores a much-needed boost.
Yet even that may feel something of an anti-climax for an author who has re-written the rules of publishing and generated the kind of media hype and public hysteria normally reserved for Hollywood royalty.
As each Harry Potter instalment hit the shelves, hundreds of thousands of fans dressed up as wizards and witches and queued outside book stores from Toronto to Tokyo, and the sales figures were staggering - 450 million copies and counting.
Rowling said she was looking forward to a more subdued book launch this time around.
"As much as is possible I wanted this to be a normal book publication," she told USA Today in one of a handful of newspaper interviews she gave to promote the novel.
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