J.K. Rowling confirms that she's writing the Harry Potter Encyclopedia

Affectionately titled The Scottish Book (a joke from The Leaky Cauldron's PotterCast), J.K. Rowling has officially announced via her website's FAQ that she is, in fact, writing the Harry Potter encyclopedia. Jo writes that she had been promising it for years, but that she finally started work on the encyclopedia, and that all royalties will be donated to charity.

Nice going, Jo! We knew she'd donate it to charity, not that that's a bad thing!

Thoughts?

J.K. Rowling announces the title and release date for her next book!

Big news that will no doubt go in history; Joanne Kathleen Rowling has announced that the title of her adult novel will be...

The Casual Vacancy

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Little, Brown provides a summary, as well:

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

The Casual Vacancy will be released September 27, 2012 in bookstores!

Jo has also updated her official website to include an interesting timeline of news over the past few years, including Pottermore and The Casual Vacancy.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? WE ARE FREAKING OUT!

Jo Confirms Her New Book Will Be Released...

J.K. Rowling took to Twitter to send out the message that her new book will, indeed, be released this year!

The image that is displayed on both Rowling's and The Blair Partnership's websites.

The Stiefvater Secret Project Is...

For a while, New York Times-bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater has been teasing a new project, besides The Scorpio Races. On February 2, 2012, Stiefvater took to her blog to announce The Raven Boys, a new fantasy story taking place centered around two characters called Blue Sargent and Richard Campbell Gansey III. The synopsis Stiefvater provides states:

Filled with mystery, romance, and the supernatural, The Raven Boys introduces readers to Richard “Dick” Campbell Gansey, III and Blue Sargent. Gansey has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on the hunt to find Glendower, a vanished Welsh king. Legend has it that the first person to find him will be granted a wish—either by seeing him open his eyes, or by cutting out his heart.

Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there—known as Raven Boys—can only mean trouble. When Gansey and his Raven Boy friends come into her life, Blue realizes how true this is. She never thought her fortune would be a problem. But she was wrong.

Stiefvater also provided the cover for the book.



Are you going to check out the book when it hits shelves September 18?