J.K. Rowling confesses more Comoran Strike books planned than Harry Potter saga, more A few highlights from J.K. Rowling's chat at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Friday evening, where she discussed her Comoran Strike series (including the first installments, The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm), were released on Twitter from those lucky fans who got to attend. Rowling mentioned that she actually has more Strike books in mind than her seven-part Harry Potter saga, and that she's nearly done with the third and already has a fourth book planned out. <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>'The Harry Potter series is 6 whodunnits and 1 whytheydunnit in disguise' - why JK Rowling chose to write crime. Awesome! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— Vicki Watson (@vixadelic) <a href="https://twitter.com/vixadelic/statuses/490205299949977600">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rowling explored disability through Strike as wanted to show the less shiny Paralympics side of disability, the everyday. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— Vicki Watson (@vixadelic) <a href="https://twitter.com/vixadelic/statuses/490208093142540288">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Apparently MORE than seven Robert Galbraith Cormorant Strike books to come! *everyone applauds* <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— Vicki Watson (@vixadelic) <a href="https://twitter.com/vixadelic/statuses/490208897073164288">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>JK Rowling tells <a href="https://twitter.com/valmcdermid">@valmcdermid</a> she's planning more Cormorant Strike books than there were Harry Potters <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a> <a href="http://t.co/SelAT36UNz">pic.twitter.com/SelAT36UNz</a></p>— Colin Paterson (@ColinGPaterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColinGPaterson/statuses/490209763486347264">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rowling loves a colour coded spreadsheet to keep an eye on all the plot strands for her Cormoran Strike novels. Good girl. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— Vicki Watson (@vixadelic) <a href="https://twitter.com/vixadelic/statuses/490209900719788032">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>JK Rowling thinks Robin Ellacott is the most loveable character she's ever written, including everyone in Harry Potter! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— Vicki Watson (@vixadelic) <a href="https://twitter.com/vixadelic/statuses/490212935890132992">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>JK Rowling is halfway through the third <a href="https://twitter.com/Robertgalbraith">@Robertgalbraith</a> novel and has the fourth planned out <a href="https://twitter.com/TheakstonsCrime">@TheakstonsCrime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— The Crime Vault (@TheCrimeVault) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCrimeVault/statuses/490218476800593920">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The third Comoran Strike <a href="https://twitter.com/Robertgalbraith">@Robertgalbraith</a> novel will be centred around the experience of returning soldiers <a href="https://twitter.com/TheakstonsCrime">@TheakstonsCrime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— The Crime Vault (@TheCrimeVault) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCrimeVault/statuses/490219129555914752">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Jo said if she hadn't been a writer she'd have liked to do psychology... Yet another reason to love her <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/psychbants?src=hash">#psychbants</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a></p>— Rach (@rachhiee_) <a href="https://twitter.com/rachhiee_/statuses/490219472704516096">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Very very excited to have got my book signed by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JKRowling?src=hash">#JKRowling</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/TheakstonsCrime">@TheakstonsCrime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOPCRIME2014?src=hash">#TOPCRIME2014</a> <a href="http://t.co/uW8mfnfecy">pic.twitter.com/uW8mfnfecy</a></p>— Nicola Johnston (@Nicola_Johnston) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nicola_Johnston/statuses/490226711670579200">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Quote:
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