years between books

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No: HPFGUIDX 78444

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
> Why is everyone saying that there is going to be a
> wait of several 
> years before we get Book 6.  Is this official or just
> wild guesswork, 
> based on the time between Books 4 and 5?  I understood
> that Book 6 
> was going to be much shorter than the two previous
> ones, so I hardly 
> think a wait of years is likely.  God, I hope not.
> especially as 
> there probably WILL be a healthy gap between Books 6
> and 7.
> Please say it isn't so.
> Sylvia
> 
> My reply:  I think it will be out in a little over a
> year, my reasoning for that is simple.  JKR is ready
> to move on...she is going to finish the series and all
> that.  
> 
> The reason for the gap between four and five was
> mostly JKR's mental break down.  That she has alluded
> to in the press.
> 


>From an interview I read at the time of release of OOTP, she stated 
she had already begun book 6. So I think it will be about a year 
since she is not going to have a baby, and seems relatively healthy. 
I think she also stated that she was working on some plot lines or 
something for book 7 as well.
Fran