Author J.K. Rowling has confirmed that she is working on her first children’s book since Harry Potter. This is a stark departure from the novels she has written in the last five years that have primarily been aimed at adults.
“I have an idea for a children’s book, which I really love – I’ve been writing part of a children’s book so I’m going to finish that – and I have ideas for other adult books.” Speaking about her Cormoran Strike series of novels, which she penned under the name Robert Galbraith, Rowling added: “What’s nice about the Strike books is I don’t have an end point. I’m not as prescriptive as with the Potter books.”
“I could even probably go to 10, even beyond, I don’t know, depending on the number of plots. What will ultimately limit it is the relationship between Striker and Robin (Ellacott, his investigator partner), and that’s the through-line. I think at the point where I don’t enjoy writing about them any more, that will probably be the point when Robert stops writing this series but I certainly am nowhere near that yet.”
Rowling has not published a book under her name since The Casual Vacancy in 2012, which was highly anticipated as her first novel for adults and is now being adapted as a BBC miniseries. She has published three books as Robert Galbraith in the Cormoran Strike series, with the latest released in October.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
