There's exciting news for all Harry Potter fans after author JK Rowling revealed that she is working on a new children's book.
The author revealed the news while taking part in her first interview under her crime-writing pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She told BBC Radio, "I have an idea for a children's book, actually I have written part of a children's book that I really love, so I'm definitely going to finish that."
Speaking about her decision to publish new material under a different name, the author put it down to wanting to avoid the spotlight after being involved in the Harry Potter media frenzy for so long.
"The deal [with my editor] was even if I am found out, Robert doesn't do publicity," she said. "I just like Robert's writing career to be less about the hype because I'd done so much of that with Potter.
"I'm the kind of writer who really does want to be alone writing in a room most of the time. With Robert, it feels like it's mostly about the writing, even though people know it's me."
Pottermania meanwhile is still alive and well, Tickets for Rowling’s play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is set 19 years after the last novel, The Deathly Hallows, went on sale last week amid much hysteria.
175,000 Tickets to the play sold in eight hours, with some being resold by touts for over €3000.
Rowling has said that working on the play was “really exciting”, adding that she may continue to write about the boy-who-lived.
"I always said I'm not going to say never because there were things I had in my head about what happened 19 years later. I personally had no particular desire to write [Cursed Child] as a novel for reasons I think will become clear when people see the play", she said.
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (aka Rowling) is out now.
