Rowling Prepares to Write Final 'Potter' Novel
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}J.K. Rowling expects to have a busy 2006, "the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series."
"I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread, because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions (Will I ever answer all of the questions? Let's aim for most of the questions); and yet it will all be over at last and I can't quite imagine life without Harry," the British author wrote in a recent posting on her Web site.
The sixth installment of Rowling's fantasy series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," came out last summer. It has sold more than 10 million copies in the United States alone.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Total worldwide sales of the Harry Potter books top 300 million.
On her Web site, Rowling said she had been "fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan of seven during the past few weeks." She noted that "reading through the plan is like contemplating the map of an unknown country in which I will soon find myself."
Rowling expects to start on the final book, not yet titled, next month.