LONDON — J.K. Rowling plans to return to writing for young people — and the author says she doesn’t rule out another book set in Harry Potter’s magical world.
Rowling became the world’s most successful living writer with her seven novels about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and is pitched into battle against the forces of evil.
Rowling’s first book for adults, “The Casual Vacancy,” is being published Thursday, five years after the release of the last volume in the Potter saga.
The 47-year-old author told the BBC that her next book would be “for slightly younger children than the Potter books.”
Rowling — who has spoken of her financial struggles, anxiety and depression — said she anticipated that some of her fans would not like the new book. But she isn’t worried.
“Harry Potter truly liberated me in the sense that there’s only one reason to write, for me — if I genuinely have something I want to say,” she said.
