Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:22 pm**

www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/12/21/uk ... index.html

This is unusually fast for JKR, isn't it?

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:48 pm**

I've heard rumors, but it looks like now it's official

She said that she wanted it done before her baby was due. She's been working on it night and day. I have some extremely happy children right now

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:00 pm**

Sixth Harry Potter book to hit stand on July 16 next year

London, Dec. 21 (PTI): The sixth Harry Potter novel will hit the stands on July 16 next year, its author J K Rowling, announced today. 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' will be published simultaneously in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Rowling told newsmen she had completed the novel after originally saying she would announce details on Christmas Day. It has been a long wait for Rowling's young fans since the fifth book, 'The Order Of The Phoenix,' came out in June 2003.

Originally she planned to publish one book a year, to correspond with the seven years that her fictional hero spends at the magical academy of Hogwarts, but that time-table has been derailed by her growing family.

Rowling was pregnant with her second child, David, when she started writing 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince' early last year, and is now expecting her third baby. Rowling has revealed that one of her characters will be killed off in the new book - but gave no hints as to their identity. Writing on her website, Rowling assured fans the half-blood prince of the title is neither Harry, the hero, nor Lord Voldemort, the villain of the uniquely successful series.

She said the opening chapter of the book has been brewing in her mind for 13 years. She said she had plenty of time while pregnant "to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result."

The series has been a publishing phenomenon, with five million copies of the last book sold in the first 24 hours of publication.

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:46 pm**

Yeah, that's pretty groovy.....

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:06 pm**

I'm really looking forward to this! Now I have 2 dates next summer to count down: May 19th (release of Episode III) and July 16th.

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:05 am**

My kids were soooooooo happy when they heard this news!!!

Posted: **Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:45 pm**

Oh, too cool. July 16th is my birthday! I'm going to take the day off and read it cover to cover!

Posted: **Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:50 am**

man, i didnt read that headline all the way through when i first saw it...i thought it was talking about the next movie...

this is cool, i cant wait

Posted: **Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:42 am**

Amazon.com is taking pre-orders now, $17.99!

Posted: **Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:17 am**

Already ordered mine. 40% off is a pretty good deal. I feel like such a consumer... *shrug* Though I dread to find out who she's gonna knock off this time... Oh well.

What a cool birthday present, Myste!

Party! :letsparty:

Posted: **Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:38 pm**

man, the second day the last one was released, i saw like 50 copies of it in my local grocery store...think ill just go there when im gettin groceries

Posted: **Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:09 pm**

We're already making plans for the midnight bookstore party!!!

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:23 am**

www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/30/pr ... index.html

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:34 pm**

And away we go!! Let the madness begin!!

Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:05 pm**

I preordered the book the same day Amazon announced that they had it. I was signed up for email notifications

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Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:31 pm**

I went ahead and ordered two copies, one for each of the kids.

At 40% off, why not?

I'll get to read the copy of whichever kid is done with it first.

Posted: **Sun May 01, 2005 12:29 am**

Preordered my copy yesterday. Couldn't hold off any longer.

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 2:09 am**

im gonna go to my local grocery store and get it when it comes out...

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 6:54 am**

But at 40% off! And they bring it right to your door!

Actually, if I had a bit less money, I would have had to hold out for the paperback, like last time. Boy, that was painful. Thankfully a good friend let me borrow her hardback before I went crazy with the suspense.

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 4:41 pm**

Alynna, you don't have a library card? Or where they all out of HP books last time (mine was)? I will not be able to read the book right away since I start school the 10th, but I will have it done before August.

Kevin's Watch

Half Blood Prince due July 16th!

Half Blood Prince due July 16th!