London: Just days after release of her first adult novel, famed author JK Rowling has said her next published book will be for children. "I think probably the next thing I write, or the next thing I publish, will be for children," said Rowling, while talking to an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in Gloucestershire, England.
She told fans that she had a "number of ideas on my laptop", but wouldn't reveal the details about what she has been working on, BBC Newsbeat reported. She, however, let out that the next book will be for "younger children than the Harry Potter series".
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02:17 AM, Oct 08, 2012
A strange uneasiness woke Petunia Dursley up much before the diffused rays of the sun swept the manicured lawns of 7, Privet Drive, Little Whinging. She had a premonition of something terrible about to happen to her ever since she received an owl from Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 11 years ago, asking her to look out for the signs. She had been watchful...
10:19 AM, Oct 03, 2012
London: Celebrated writer JK Rowling prefers the romance of the printed book rather than e-books even though she has recently acquired a tablet that has a library of over 200 books. Speaking to journalists and others at a book reading event at the Southbank Centre here, Rowling said that until some time ago she was "hesitant" to use e-books, because "I didn't understand it, but finally I got it." She...
03:40 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New York: So look, here's the thing: This. Is. Not. A. Children's. Book. If you're looking for what made Harry Potter magical - Wizards! Spells! Flying Broomsticks! - you're not going to find it. If you're looking for what makes JK Rowling magical - emotion, heart - you will. Vacancy is the first novel written for adults from Rowling, the successful-beyond-belief author behind the "Harry Potter" series about the young...
08:39 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Author JK Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' published by Hachette sets a new record for sales for an adult hardback in India. Rowling already holds the record for children's books with her Harry Potter series. The Casual Vacancy is the first ever high-security book to be printed locally in India. In India the book was released under high security at 2:30 pm. There is an Indian character, Parminder Jawanda, in Rowling's...
03:47 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowlings first novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy is the first ever high-security book to be printed locally in India. In India the book releases under high security at 2.30 pm. The cover is designed by Mario J Pulice, illustration and hand lettering by Joel Holland. It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and...
01:46 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowlings first novel for adults. The cover is designed by Mario J Pulice, illustration and hand lettering by Joel Holland. It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults. Earlier reports had suggested that 'The Casual Vacancy,' will have the magic touch. The book will be...
04:49 PM, Sep 26, 2012
So look, here's the thing: This. Is. Not. A. Children's. Book. If you're looking for what made Harry Potter magical - Wizards! Spells! Flying Broomsticks! - you're not going to find it. If you're looking for what makes JK Rowling magical - emotion, heart - you will. 'The Casual Vacancy' is the first novel written for adults from Rowling, the successful-beyond-belief author behind the 'Harry Potter' series about the young...
02:40 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Author JK Rowling could be imprisoned by the huge fortune that she has made from the Harry Potter books, says her fellow author Joanna Trollope. Rowling, who has sold more than 450 million copies of her novel and amassed an estimated 560 million pounds fortune, was a single mother living on social security benefits when she wrote her first Harry Potter novel, reported Daily Telegraph. "I have nothing but admiration...
02:41 PM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: One of the perks of being a celebrity is all the media attention, but sometimes it could just backfire, like in the case of starlet Parineeti Chopra. At a special screening for Shirin Farhad, Chopra wore a red clingy dress that ripped from behind. Although she realised and rushed to cover up within ten minutes of making the appearance, those ten minutes were enough for the paparazzi to...
03:32 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New York: Shortly before the Harry Potter saga came to an end on movie screens a year ago, we were teased with more adventures about the young wizard through a website called Pottermore. One million fans who were able to solve riddles and find a Magical Quill have had a chance to try out Pottermore for nearly a year. The rest of us - the magic-free Muggles - had to...
03:17 PM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowlings first novel for adults. The cover is designed by Mario J Pulice, illustration and hand lettering by Joel Holland. It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults. Earlier reports had suggested that 'The Casual Vacancy,' will have the magic touch. The book will be...
08:15 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Mumbai: PC Sorcar Jr is magic. The robe-and-wand yielding, feather-turban clad, abracadabra kind that takes over your mind and opens it to a world where everything is limitless and impossible is nothing. MiD DAY catches up with him as he returns to the city after a gap of 12 years to perform in aid of cancer patients, and comes back mystified. Sans his dramatic on-stage avatar, and with his smiling...
10:44 AM, Jun 13, 2012
Los Angeles: The magic of Harry Potter is coming to the PlayStation 3. In a partnership with author JK Rowling, Sony Corp. has unveiled a new game, Wonderbook: Book of Spells that turns its PlayStation Move motion controller into a magic wand. The game comes with a book of spells. Gamers wave the wand in prescribed patterns and learn how to cast spells that make fire, unlock gates and move...
05:25 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Pottermore, an online hub developed by author JK Rowling for fans of the boy wizard Harry Potter is now open for all. The free site promises to be an exciting world full of new activities and information on Harry Potter and others from the hit book series. Fans will get additional writings from Rowling about the books, digital games extending the series' themes and plot-lines, e-book reading and...
12:54 PM, May 14, 2012
New York: Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library. Amazon.com announced on Thursday that on June 19, the e-book editions of JK Rowling's seven Potter novels will become part of the Kindle service available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Members can download a book for free once a month. Amazon's library has more than 145,000 books. Financial terms were not disclosed for the online retailer's "licensing agreement" with Rowling. Rowling...
11:30 PM, May 13, 2012
London: Author JK Rowling is working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and will donate the royalties to charity, she has said on her website. Four years ago the British writer took an independent US publisher to court to stop its plans for a reference book on the world of the fictional boy wizard, saying it constituted a "rip off" of her work. On her re-vamped website, Rowling addressed the question...
09:04 PM, Apr 16, 2012
London: It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," will have the magic touch. The book's title was announced on Thursday by Little, Brown & Co. along with a brief plot synopsis and publication date. The publisher said the "blackly comic" tale of rivalry and duplicity in a small English town would be available worldwide on...
11:49 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New York: Adult fans of JK Rowling can rejoice: She has a new novel coming, for grownups. The kids will have to wait and see. The author of the mega-selling "Harry Potter" series said on Thursday she has an agreement with Little, Brown in the United States and Britain to publish her first adult novel. The title, release date and details about the novel, long rumored, were not announced. Her...
10:23 PM, Feb 23, 2012
London: Writer JK Rowling and actress Sienna Miller gave a London courtroom a vivid picture on Thursday of the anxiety, anger and fear produced by living in the glare of Britain's tabloid media, describing how press intrusion made them feel like prisoners in their own homes. The creator of boy wizard Harry Potter told Britain's media ethics inquiry that having journalists camped on her doorstep was "like being under siege...
03:53 PM, Nov 25, 2011
