J.K. Rowling launches adult debut novel in London
Posted September 28, 2012 7:38 am.
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J.K. Rowling launched her new novel The Casual Vacancy in London on Thursday night, her first foray into adult fiction.
The book, set in a small English town, received mixed reviews – but the Harry Potter author told the audience at the Southbank Centre she was avoiding the critics.
“I did spend the first two years on this book telling myself: ‘You don’t have to publish this,’ not because it’s this, just because I was reveling in the thought that I had no contract.
“No one knew what I was doing. It was just a lovely place to be in after Potter which, latterly, there was so much pressure involved, you know, people were always waiting for the next book, three seconds after I published a Harry Potter book. And so I spent a couple of years really luxuriating in the feeling that no one knew what I was doing, but I always knew I was going to publish it. You know, I did, setting aside Salinger, you write to be published. So tonight is lovely, it’s a celebration, it feels good.”
Hefty sales are expected for the writer who has sold 450 million books.
And its not the only title the author is planning post-Potter.
Two more children’s books are already being developed, and Rowling says she also has ideas about her second adult book as well.
