JKR Won't write a Crime nove~~~Sad

Earlier this week, we told you about a Scottish novelist's comment stating that JK Rowling was writing a crime novel. In a new interview with the author Ian Rankin, he describes the rumors as a "joke that got out of hand. There were 600 people in the audience, and only one person didn't laugh."

Emma Schlesinger, speaking for Rowling's literary agent, has commented on the theories concerning Jo and her next book.

"JK Rowling is taking a well-earned break following the English language publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and there are no firm plans as yet as to what her next book may be."

source : mugglenet

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Rowling's 'crime novel' is a red herring

Speculation that the Edinburgh book festival may have resolved one of the burning questions of modern publishing - what JK Rowling will write next - have been dashed this afternoon, when the Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin diagnosed a case of festival fever.

A report that his wife, Miranda, had seen JK Rowling "scribbling away" in an Edinburgh caf, supposedly hard at work on a detective novel set in the Scottish capital, was dismissed as a classic silly season story when the Guardian contacted him by telephone earlier today.