number of years between books?

[thetruthisoutthere_13]

No: HPFGUIDX 72919

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, <lmbolland at e...> wrote:
> Earlier today, someone casually mentioned (in a HPforGU post) that 
JKR was planning to put 3 years between each of the next books?  Is 
this from an interview? Does anyone have any specific info on this?
> 
> (My 9 yo son is in panic about this!)
> 
> Lauri

As far as I've heard, the timeline for books 6 and 7 are the same as 
it was for book 5. In other words, there is no timeline/pre-
determined release dates. 

I saw Arthur Levine (VP of Scholastic, also Rowling's editor and 
brought the Potter series to Scholastic) on Charlie Rose the night 
before OotP came out, and he said that Rowling came up with the idea 
of not having a deadline for book 5, since writing GoF was too 
stressful with a strict deadline (Rowling offered to return her 
advance since she didn't know when the book would be done--
Scholastic and Bloombury turned her down). Everything I've heard or 
seen since OotP came out says that book 6 will be the same way. It 
could be done in a year, it could be another three.

-kg