Heard any gossip about release date of next book?

[davewitley]

malaprop2000 asked:

> Just curious .. I certainly haven't. (Please not three years, 
please
> not three years.)

and Nineve Laguna asked over on the main list (message 89245).

This is what the Bloomsbury website says (in its Harry Potter FAQs):

When will the sixth book in the Harry Potter series be published?
There is no deadline for this book, so no publication date has been 
set. 

http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/harrypotter/muggles/faq/faq.asp?
pageNo=15&pagePos=2&s=6

or

http://tinyurl.com/2funz

or go to the Bloomsbury site (www.bloomsburymagazine.com), enter the 
Harry Potter section, enter either the Muggles or the Witches and 
Wizards section, and click on the FAQ sign and click through 
on 'next'.

For the release of OOP, Bloomsbury changed this site they day they 
announced the release date.  Before that, it was a well-kept secret 
(or, more likely, they simply hadn't decided).

So your best bet is to bookmark the Bloomsbury site and keep an eye 
on it.  Chances are when the announcement is made, it'll be hard to 
miss.

You might also be interested in the leaky cauldron's FAQ:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/tlcfaq.html#booksix

"When is Book Six coming out? What is Book Six called? Can you tell 
me anything about Book Six?
Don't we wish. We have as much information about Book Six as you do -
 and the second we hear word about its title, when it's coming out, 
or anything, we will post it on the site. The last we heard, J.K. 
Rowling was writing happily, though more slowly because she has a 
small child to look after. It's still less than a year since Book 
Five - so don't have a dragon egg, Harry fans. We've proven before 
that we're made of much stronger stuff than that."

So, for intermediate information ("JKR is writing happily"/"JKR 
denies writer's block"/"JKR's baby drops manuscript in toilet" etc I 
suggest you keep an eye out there:

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org

David