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J.K. Rowling's Next Novel Announced, Written for Adults
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Posted by: Melissa
February 23, 2012, 09:28 AM


UPDATE: jkrowling.com is being "refreshed and redesigned" and will be opened again later this spring. An e-mail list has been added to the Web site's interface for readers to subscribe to updates.



J.K. Rowling's agency, the Blair Partnership, announced this morning that the Harry Potter author will be releasing a new novel for adults.

The only other info on the page, besides a graphic, is a note from the author indicating that "While I have loved writing it just as much, my next book will be very different from the Harry Potter series."

A press release further notes:

"Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world. The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life"

Details will be announced "later in the year." The as-yet unnamed book has been bought by Little, Brown and Company in the UK and US.

The book will be the first of J.K. Rowling's work to be available immediately in print and electronic versions. There was no auction for the rights to the book.

As always through all these years, stay very close to Leaky for news and developments on J.K. Rowling's writing: we will be covering it as closely as we do Harry Potter.

Go to http://www.jkrowling.com to sign up for the updates.



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J.K. Rowling: A ‘Harry Potter’ prequel about the Marauders will not happen

Harry Potter and The Casual Vacancy author J.K. Rowling spoke this evening at the Bath Literature Festival and made clear that if she ever returns to Harry Potter, she won’t write a prequel.

















J.K. Rowling: A ‘Harry Potter’ prequel about the Marauders will not happen

By Andrew Sims at 4:33 pm, March 8, 2013 - @Sims
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Harry Potter and The Casual Vacancy author J.K. Rowling spoke this evening at the Bath Literature Festival and made clear that if she ever returns to Harry Potter, she won’t write a prequel.


Rowling was asked about if she would return to the Harry Potter series like so many fans have hoped since 2007 to write about, as an example, the Marauders. She responded by saying that although she has no current plans to return to the series, if she did it would not be about the Marauders. The reason? She doesn’t find prequels to be any good. This would mean no stories about James, Lily, Sirius, Pettigrew, etc.



Elsewhere during the evening she said…
- Grindelwald never loved Dumbledore and used him.
- Her own first kiss came when she was 12 years old.
- Her next book will be aimed at 8-year-olds, but she’s still busy writing it.
- Her proudest moment was when she outed Dumbledore (as gay), and following the revelation in New York City a fan came up to her straight afterwords and revealed that he or she too is homosexual.


Hypable co-founder Richard Reid attended tonight’s event and reported back on the comments Rowling made. This is the author’s only planned public engagement in 2013.


The news of no Maurader prequels may come as a disappointment to fans who had hoped or thought that would be the perfect part of the Potter world to head into with a new book. Fans could also see her writing about Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s children – and luckily she hasn’t ruled that idea out (yet). Regardless, it’s nice to hear her still considering the idea of returning to the Wizarding World.






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Potter’ book covers nab August 27 release date, Amazon opens pre-orders

By Andrew Sims at 1:30 pm, March 8, 2013 - @Sims


Though Scholastic had initially said the books would debut in September (and we were hoping they’d plan for September 1 to time with a new term at Hogwarts), the new Harry Potter book covers in the U.S. will now premiere in August.


Amazon is listing the books with an August 27 launch date, and Hypable has confirmed with Scholastic that this date is legitimate.


In addition, the books are now available for pre-order on Amazon. They are available at the following prices after discount. You can use the links to pre-order each one, including the box set which has special artwork of its own:

- Sorcerer’s Stone: $8.98
- Chamber of Secrets: $8.98
- Prisoner of Azkaban: $7.21
- Goblet of Fire: $10.19
- Order of the Phoenix: $10.19
- Half-Blood Prince: $10.19
- Deathly Hallows: $10.98


Each product listing credits Mary GrandPre, which suggests the chapter art seen in the original books will be included with these new covers.


In case you missed it: Scholastic announced last month that they were re-releasing all seven Harry Potter books in paperback with new covers illustrated by Kazu Kibuishi. Each of the books will include “bonus material” at the end. We reached out to the publisher to learn what this material is, but as of a few weeks ago it has not yet been determined.


We’re as eager as you probably are to see the covers for the rest of the books. Only the new Sorcerer’s Stone cover has been released so far.





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Scholastic to re-release all 7 ‘Harry Potter’ books with new covers, ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’ unveiled today

By Andrew Sims at 9:19 am, February 13, 2013 - @Sims
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The United States publisher of the Harry Potter books announced today that the paperback editions of J.K. Rowling’s series will have new covers in September 2013.

These new covers are designed by Kazu Kibuishi, and you can see the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone cover below. The publisher says these new covers are in honor of the series’ fifteenth anniversary.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone new cover

EDIT: Want the extremely high-res version? We’ve uploaded it here. It was 10 MB in size, we scaled it down to 2.5 MB. Still huge. We’re so afraid of its bandwidth that we didn’t even upload it to Hypable’s server.

Says Kibuishi about taking on this prestigious honor, “When I was asked to submit samples, I initially hesitated because I didn’t want to see them reinterpreted! However, I felt that if I were to handle the project, I could bring something to it that many other designers and illustrators probably couldn’t, and that was that I was also a writer of my own series of middle grade fiction. As an author myself, I tried to answer the question, ‘If I were the author of the books – and they were like my own children – how would I want them to be seen years from now?’ When illustrating the covers, I tried to think of classic perennial paperback editions of famous novels and how those illustrations tend to feel. In a way, the project became a tribute to both Harry Potter and the literary classics.”

According to a press release, “the seven new covers will depict a distinctive and memorable moment from the respective book. The collection, which will also be released in September as a boxed set, will offer new readers just reaching the age to begin the series a glimpse of J.K. Rowling’s magical world and the epic story they are about to enter.”

The hardback and digital versions of the books will still use original illustrator Mary GrandPre’s art.

Scholastic also confirmed today that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through The Ages, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be released as a Hogwarts Library Box Set for the first time in the U.S. this November.



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