Today is the day J.K. Rowling's first novel since Harry Potter, The Casual Vacancy, is/will be released to the public. As a writer about to enter into the publishing world, my little novel clutched hopefully to my chest, I can't help but admire Ms. Rowling's quest to continuing writing in spite of all the mounting pressure. Will it be as good as Harry Potter? Will she be able to successfully separate herself from the wizarding world? Can she handle it? I don't have the answers to those questions, because I'm not her, but I believe she is doing a very brave, intrepid thing, breaking herself away from the creative world that brought her so much success and trying her hand at something new, a totally different kind of story. I wish her the absolute best.
Allan Massie of the Daily Telegraph has an interesting blogpost this morning on Ms. Rowling, asking: how do you deal with a book by an author who has achieved such a phenomenal success as Harry Potter?
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