As 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.
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.
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
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!
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? ;)
Anyone applying the tutm “one trick pony”’to JKR needs to stand back and look at all she accalmished with the HP series ,so very people ,,,including adults,,,starting reading ….again and it is such a rediculious phase to apply to her __I guess you have already read her next book …................
Chris ….I think you are on the wrong wedsite…..try
www.ijustwanttocomplainabout anything.com
I think that she hit pay dirt on this magic thing, and she hasn’t wrote anything since. What I am surpost to believe. Harry Potter books were her first books, so she doesn’t past books that I can look at and say, “Wow, she write other stuff besides Harry Potter. If she is completely burn out of writting Harry Potter (which I think she is, because of the 7th book that was crap), I blame the crazy fans, who demanded her to write as fast as she can! YOU know who you are! In closing, I would just like to say that this woman has written a GREAT series, and she has been rewarded for it…but she has done NOTHING to make me think that this wasn’t a fluke!
OMG, Lynn… Why don’t you bother somebody else, and not a woman who (as you say) has written a GREAT series
If you think she is great, then you must know that she will write another book as great as HP series. You’ll see!
Just get a life, don’t bother her and their fans!
Lynn… she’s working on something right now! As this article quite obviously says! How can you possibly claim she ” hasn’t wrote anything since”? It hasn’t even been a year since HP7 was published! Only the “crazy fans who demand her to write as fast as she can” would expect her to have another book out by now… your argument makes no sense at all.
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.