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J.K. Rowling may be taking a little breather after the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” her seventh and final book in the wildly popular series, but she’s already started two new writing projects.
“I’m sort of writing two things at the moment,” Rowling told USA Today. “One is for children, and the other is not for children. The weird thing is that this is exactly the way I started writing ‘Harry.’ I was writing two things simultaneously for a year before ‘Harry’ took over. So one will oust the other in due course, and I’ll know that’s my next thing.”
The Scotland-based writer says that she’ll also “probably” pen an encyclopedia of all things Harry — drawing from more than a decade worth of notes to flesh out plot points and details about characters that didn’t make the final cuts.
“I suppose I have [started] because the raw material is all in my notes,” Rowling told “Today” show host Meredith Vieira and fans in an interview from Edinburgh Castle.
But don’t hold your breath.
“What’s quite uplifting is that in the middle of all this sadness I feel about ‘Harry’ ending — and I do feel a lot of sadness about it — is the thought that financially I don’t have to publish immediately,” she tells USA Today’s Carol Memmott. “So I can take my time. And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss. Heaven. No pressure.”
Kristina Lindgren