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darksumomo (darksumomo) wrote in fandom_lounge,
@ 2012-02-26 23:47:00

Current location:	Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten
Current mood:	thud
Current music:	dogs snoring
Entry tags:	announcement, jkr can't do anything right

J K Rowling writing a new book for grown ups
From Reuters: "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling writing adult novel
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK | Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:59pm EST

(Reuters) - J.K. Rowling, whose "Harry Potter" fantasy book series became a global publishing phenomenon, is writing her first novel for adults but the title and plot are still a closely-guarded secret.

The British writer, 46, whose teenage boy wizard tales became international best-sellers and inspired a series of hit films, said on Thursday that her new novel would be "very different" to the "Harry Potter" books that made her a household name and turned her into a billionaire.

"Although I've enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series," Rowling said in a statement.

More at the link in the headline.

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	librarianmouse 2012-02-27 05:12 am UTC (link)
	It's been so long since we've had "JKR does everything wrong" wank! How exciting! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	agent_hyatt 2012-02-27 05:29 am UTC (link)
	A proper one, at least. There have been plenty of mini-wanks rehashing old material. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	zellieh 2012-02-29 10:46 am UTC (link)
	I have no doubt that I'll enjoy the wank, but I feel so sorry for JKR as a person. I imagine people are already sharpening their weapons, and no matter what this new story's like, she'll be viciously attacked. But, realistically, how could anything top Harry Potter and the Global Success Story<.em>? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2012-02-27 05:32 am UTC (link)
	Name of new novel: A Tale of Two Martian Invasions (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2012-02-27 05:33 am UTC (link)
	Goddamnit, where's the rest of my comment where I was implying she was getting on the pride and prejudice with zombies bandwagons for some real fame. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	major_dallas 2012-02-27 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	Rowling is doing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Plants! She's trying to get in on the video game fame, watch out Battleship! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2012-02-27 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	Everyone seems to be assuming it's going to be fantasy. Is it wrong for me to want her new novel to be some kind of uber-pretentious navel-gazey litfic just to see the wank that results? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	magnolia_mama 2012-02-27 12:50 pm UTC (link)
	There was an interesting essay in The Guardian the other day that speculates the new book will be crime fiction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/feb/24/jk-rowling-crime-fiction-clues (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pfeffermuse 2012-02-27 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	J.K. Rowling: the new J.B. Fletcher? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zellieh 2012-02-29 10:53 am UTC (link)
	...and I am now imagining a future where dead bodies pop up everywhere JKR goes, and she then solves all the murders with the power of her mind! ::g:: (I always wanted an episode where Jessica arrived somewhere and all the hotel staff and locals locked their doors and hid behind their sofas and just yelled, "Go home! We've heard about you! We don't want to die!!!") (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ashenmote 2012-02-27 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	But did you notice how she didn't say anything about Severus Snape not being in the new book? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2012-02-27 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	If this is Severus Snape: Noir Detective I would like to reserve a copy now please. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wankaholic 2012-02-28 01:58 am UTC (link)
	That would be amazing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mmanurere 2012-02-28 03:04 am UTC (link)
	I'd be quite OK with a character who "isn't" Snape but has the same general bitter snarkiness and unpleasantness combined with the occasional decision to do the right thing when push comes to shove even though he can't stand some of the people he's helping. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	full_metal_ox 2012-03-02 01:05 am UTC (link)
	Didn't Arthur Conan Doyle give the world one of those quite some while ago? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mmanurere 2012-03-02 01:23 am UTC (link)
	Holmes always felt more aggressively indifferent than actively misanthropic to me. YMMV, though... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iczer6 2012-03-03 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Still won't stop the Snape fans from wanking. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kaen 2012-02-28 04:19 am UTC (link)
	Didn't she already announce right after Deathly Hallows that she planned to write an adult mystery novel next? Or did she just say something about wanting to write one once and the article I read was readying too much into the comment? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sparkysrevenge 2012-02-28 08:36 am UTC (link)
	She's said it more than once or twice. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	khym_chanur 2012-02-28 04:29 am UTC (link)
	I'm kind of hoping that it will be a sci-fi novel, just to see what weird new terminology she'd come up with to replace perfectly fine existing terminology. Since she called teleportation "apparition" and zombies "inferi", I'm sure she'd come up with equally odd terms for things like hyperspace, A.I. and so forth. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	dandywolves 2012-02-28 04:46 am UTC (link)
	I always handwaved the zombie/inferi thing because "zombie" is a (if I'm not mistaken) Creole word, so it makes since that British wizards would have come up with their word for it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	adverb 2012-02-28 06:54 am UTC (link)
	And teleportation as a term wasn't coined until the 1930s, so if wizards started doing it earlier, it makes sense that they'd have made their own term. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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