# Harry Potter series finished, will Rowling write again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-series-finished-will-rowling-write-again/413452 "2007-07-28T01:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-series-finished-will-rowling-write-again/413452/1 "2007-07-28T01:48:59Z")
What will she write? Has she said anything about something new? Will she slip into darkness, as a one hit wonder? Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-series-finished-will-rowling-write-again/413452/2 "2007-07-28T02:02:07Z")
> **[JK Rowling already writing post-Potter novel](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/27/harrypotter.jkjoannekathleenrowling)** > > Just days after the much-anticipated arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which has broken all records to become the fastest-selling book in history, JK Rowling has revealed that she has already started work on two new projects. > [@](#): > > Just days after the much-anticipated arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which has broken all records to become the fastest-selling book in history, JK Rowling has revealed that she has already started work on two new projects. > > In an interview with USA Today, the author said: “I’m sort of writing two things at the moment - one is for children and the other is not for children.” This method of composition is familiar to Rowling: “the weird thing is this is exactly how I started writing Harry, I was writing two things simultaneously for about a year before Harry took over. So one of them will oust the other in due course and I’ll know that’s my next thing.”