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JK Rowling goes Adult
05/03/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Rowling plans a grown up Harry Potter novel (and may end up writing science fiction after that). News for fans of everyone's favourite boy wizard, courtesy of her involvement with the very worthy 'World Book Day' initiative.
JK Rowling is planning to cap the Potter series off with a one-off novel featuring our Harry as a grown-up.
The themes explored in the book may be a little less targeted at the tweenager market which has to date made up a good-sized proportion of her audience (along with all those adults on the subway, blatantly snacking on a little fantasy on the commute home). This'll just be a warm up for what comes next however ...
Rumours from deep within the publishing world suggest that JKR wants her first post-Potter foray to jump genres, and partially shift her over to novels for a fully adult audience.
One of the genres that has been suggested is science fiction ... although our source tells us its more likely to be at the Margaret 'I really don't write science fiction' Atwood The Handmaid's Tale end of the market (so don't expect blasters, hyperspace jumps and cute made-for-CGI aliens).
Said source also suggested a historical-based children's novel set in early Victorian London to keep her hand in with the tweens.
Only time will tell what her fans end up with, but let's face it, at the moment she could release a phone book and it'd probably end up storming the top ten in the Nielsen BookScan.
Schools interested in next year's World Book Day should get themselves over here.
:wink:
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