There's a new report that JKR is going to write mystery novels. I think this is the perfect genre for her as she is good at carefully revealing facts without giving the entire story away.

Your thoughts

eh. I think she's better off with fantasies. is it regular fiction? if it is, it'll be annoying. she'll be just another normal writer.

It's incredibly difficult to create another fantasy. If you consider that it took her around 20 years to complete another one. She has said that she doesn't want to start another big project like Potter for a while.

I'm glad she will continue to write, regardless of the genre. I think that she will still be considered the writer of our generation, but she needs to write what she wants. I don't know if you know my feelings about DH, but I feel like her heart wasn't in it...

I think I agree with you on that. the book was jut...plain. all the same the whole way through and half-hearted. it wasn't what it could have been. She should have waited longer and made it better. But yeah, I guess your right, it took her 17 years with hp. yeah.

More power to her to do whatever it is that makes her happy and releases feeling and energy. I feel like people who write do it to make themselves happy and releave stress and things like that and if people don't like it...screw them. She is writing for herself, not you.

((Nobody in particular. I was just saying lol. People complain about her but it's like, she's a skajillionaire now so she must do SOMETHING right.))

Yeah but just because her first 6 books were great didn't mean the last one was. She had enough money after the third movie, she didn't need to write the last few books. eh. i don't know, whatever.

She finished the last book first dear.

I know. and- whatever. I don't want to get into an argument over fiction. the point of the discussion is her new project, not her last few books.

I disagree with that Cece... she knew how it was to end, but didn't know how she was going to get there... Don't you recall hearing about the sharpie on the marble bust that she signed telling us that she had finished the book on January 11?

She wrote the last chapter of the series first, not the entire book, i read that in an interview somewhere...

Lets stay on topic members.

Ok - Paige fantasy is one of many many genres. Thousands of best-sellers have been created in other genres. It is an insult to say that all non-fantasy books are written by "Normal writers." I think you need to have a trip to your library.

The rumour about a mystery/crime novel is actually false. See mugglenet.com :)

uhmm it was in the newspaper that she was spotted writing a detective novel in a cafe, I think its true.
I personally think JK Rowling is a better fantasy writer than anything else. with fantasy you can go anywhere, with realistic fiction you have boundaries.

Not really. Fantasy fiction is the same as any other sort of fiction, its just that the gimme is magic. Science fiction gimmes include some kind of technology - speculative, contemperory etc... breaks boundaries by placing characters in thought-provoking, abstract circumstances.

Its a lie - not my opinion.

Even though the report wasn't true, I still think she will end up writing a mystery... Her ability to keep all of us guessing throughout the Harry Potter books was excellent. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what one of her next books will be.

Her strong point is certainly suspense. There are elements of mysterin in almost everybook.