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JK Rowling Writing New Children's Book in Cafes Again
J.K. RowlingAs readers will recall, author J.K. Rowling has stated several times recently that she is at work on two new projects, one for adults and one for children. The Telegraph has more today on Jo’s efforts with the new book for children, with a brief interview where Jo says she is returning again to write in cafes, just as she did writing the Harry Potter series. Quotage:
“I will continue writing for children because that’s what I enjoy,” reveals Jo, who greatly misses the child wizard. “It’s left me with the biggest emptiness in my life.” She will, however, leave behind the magical world of Hogwarts. “I believe that it’s good for me and good for my readers that I bring myself to work on something different,” she declares.
In a search for inspiration, Jo discloses that she has returned to the Edinburgh cafes where she completed her first novel while unemployed and living on benefits: “I am very good at finding a suitable cafe. I blend into the crowd and, of course, I don’t sit in the middle of the bar staring all around me. In 90 per cent of cases, it’s the cafe’s staff who allow me to work without being bothered.”
On a related note, the worst sort of Muggles or Death Eaters have been out and about recently, as vandals have apparently made off with one of two plaques at the cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland where she wrote much of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (Philosopher’s) Stone. The Scotsman reports:
Staff at the Buffet King restaurant on Nicolson Street, which used to be Nicolson’s Cafe, said a small brass plaque dedicated to the city author had been taken from the front entrance…One restaurant worker said:”It is only a small plaque and we didn’t even know it had been stolen until someone pointed it out to us.We haven’t contacted the police about it. It’s probably a waste of time for them to even try and find out who stole it.”The city’s culture leader, Deidre Brock, said: “I am hopeful that it is found and put back soon.” The plaque was one of two set up on the street in honour of the writer. The other – which was unveiled by the Edinburgh City of Literature Trust in 2006 – is still in place, fixed to the outside of the building.
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Secunda, if you hate HP/JKR so much as this point, why are you always on Leaky? Just wondering. If it were me, I’d occupy my time with something that actually made me happy.
And I also wonder how anyone can judge Jo’s capability to write outside of the Potterverse before having read any of her post-Potter works.
For some reason this part of my posting got mangled, but it does bear repeating:
Jo has written something for the ages, the not so simple adventure of a little orphaned boy named Harry that was a wizard! Thank You Jo, from Me and those yet to be!
Many an artistic person,albeit books ,art,music ,film,stage, etc have had one thing that drew them the fame they retained ,but went on to other less famous or profitable works.It doesn’t mean those were any less good are worthwild ventures.Often they are far better than most works.The thought that a work of anykind has to amass mega $$ and recieve mass acclaim is rediculious that that work was not as worthy of prase as the work that attained mass acclaim. Smaller ventures are very worth while too and should not be rediculed as not as important [or of any improtance]as all of that persons work should be concidered worthy .And SO I think will be true of Jo Rowling.
Ananin I say write your own darn books and get your own rewrds ,if YOU are worthy.
@Amy and Helyx- I totally agree!!! HP;Jo;and everything related haters have no bussines here on Leaky!!!! Go away! Can’t wait for the new books!!!
I wish Jo had a blog, like Neil Gaiman, so we could hear more details of her writing process.
I’m guessing we’ll see one of her new books NEXT summer, 2 years after the publication of Deathly Hallows. It’s gonna be wonderfully weird reading something by her that’s NOT got Harry as the main character!
I always wondered whether she ever considered releasing something new under a pseudonym because her name is so synonymous with HP. She may have already done so for all we know.
I live in edburgh, and im sure i saw her in a small coffee house on Laurenston place after OoTP came out… Its nice to hear that people are leaving her be to write. For myself, i would find it difficult not to go up and speak to her. I do all my Uni. revision in coffee houses and i am alwase hoping she will turn up…
party I love Jo’s books [= well, don’t we all?
I hope the one for adults is a mystery novel… she’d be wonderful at that!
Calling Jo Rowling a one-trick-pony, because she only wrote Harry Potter is about as fair as calling J.R.R. Tolkien a one trick pony, because he only wrote about middle earth.
Thank Goodness! Some news on the new book(s)! I was beggining to hyperventalate (sp?) !!!
I can’t wait for them to come out. You know all of us are going to read both… and finish them in a day or two, them come right back here and gab about them , like always.
Some things just don’t change : )
very cool that jo has gone back whereit all begain for HP to workon here new book, as for that plaque i think it a strong possibility it will end up sold to some hp fanatic that would see it as the ultimate hp collectable
“One trick pony”......
Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Rice, Boroughs, Dickensen, Austin,.......Everyone, who is anyone, has read one or more, of these authors. Not EVERYTHING, they wrote, was a success. Each had their own failures…as I am sure JKR will have…..maybe not right away..but they happen to every writer.. The world will remember her, long after she is gone. Not just for the Harry Potter Series, but many other things, I am sure. “One trick pony”, indeed! Give the lady some credit. She has a wonderful mind and a great gift. And she is willing to share it with all of us. To call her work a “one trick pony” is an insult above insults.JMHO
I think thats awesome that she can write in cafes without being bothered too much. I would probably go bother her :) I think thats sad that someone stole the plaque. I really hope they return it!
I’m sure her husband & children are thrilled to hear that the absence of some fictional characters leave this woman with “the biggest emptiness in her life.” What a thoughtless hag. And you sycophants seem thrilled that she’s in the position to buy tea & cakes while she’s writing? Nice touch on reality you have!
Chris
If you really have nothing better to do than write comments on a Harry Potter website when you obviously hate both the author and her story, you really need to get a life. I am sure that her husband and children realize how important Harry has been to her as she had been writing these stories for the last 17 years of her life. Oh yeah, and Harry was one of he only bright rays of light in her life when she was a struggling single mother and her life could not have been easy. AND Harry lifted her out of that state through his popularity. I think she has more than a little reason to be a bit sentimental when thinking of him. Just go and bother some other comment board.
Hooray! Maybe Jo is working on the Scottish Book….or book 8? Maybe a new fantasy? Maybe that “political fairy story” she was going to finish? Anything by her I’ll gladly read!
Oh, Jo, please please work on the Scottish Book! puppy dog eyes =_= I mean, it’s okay if you don’t work on it right away….we can wait a while, but would you at least start on it? Pretty please? ;)
XD I’m a dork.
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I think it’s wonderful that she is enjoying writing in cafes again. It’s so poetic; the scribe, concentrating on her work as the world of the cafe moves around her – people coming and going like characters in her tale. It ranks right up there with writing on parchment under candlelight!
I wish you Jo all the inspiration in the universe to create new worlds with characters we will love and despise. Enjoy taking time – there are many of us who want you to enjoy your own life.