No book till 2003?????

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27436

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> 
> Let's face it, JKR has bigtime fallen into the Gilderoy Lockhart 
> circuit.  Dealing with movie people, she is now dealing with 
trained 
> professionals at being cool 24/7.  Who could not fail to 
succumb? "No 
> one is more easily corrupted than an artist" wrote Nietszche.  JKR, 
> as I've said before, must now be given the full Dursley treatment 
if 
> we are to see the series finished in our lifetime.  That is, she 
must 
> be locked up in a tiny cupboard, with iron slats on the door, with 
> nothing but a word processor, and a direct link to HP4GU in case 
she 
> has come across some obstacle in the narrative that she needs help 
> with. 
> 
> She can earn three months of freedom when Vol 5 is complete, but 
then 
> its back under lock and key until Vol 6 is complete. And no calls 
> from Hollywood permitted.
> 

I fear you may be correct, Caius.  I heard that the manuscript for 
OoP is already at the publisher and has been for at least a month.  
If they are really going to try to string me along for an extra six 
months and go into 2003, well. . . I don't know what I'll do.  At 
that pace, we'd see Book 6 in 2006, and Book 7 in 2009, and my 
patience will have long since been exhausted.

Cindy