JK Rowling says she's writing again

Jul 27, 2007, 11:50 GMT

Author J.K. Rowling attends a news conference before a charity reading event in New York-REUTERS/Mike Segar

London - Author JK Rowling has said she is back at work just days after publication of her final novel in the Harry Potter series.

Rowling, 41, in an interview with the USA Today newspaper, said that while the series had come to an end with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, she would not stop writing.

'I'm sort of writing two things at the moment,' she said. 'One is for children and the other is not for children.'

There have been reports that the author is planning to write a book on the characters in Harry Potter.

A record 11 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were sold in the first 24 hours of publication.

Rowling admitted to being angered that the last of the seven-novel series had been posted on a website prior to the official release.

But she said she was pleased that rumoured endings included the death of the boy wizard.

'I was very proud that people thought Harry's death was a genuine possibility. I wanted the reader to feel that anyone might die, as in life,' she said.

Rowling added that she hoped the Harry Potter series would live on.

'In 50 years' time, if people are still reading them, they deserve to be read, and if they're not, then that's okay,' she said.

Some 325 million copies of the first six volumes have been sold worldwide, and the books have been translated into 64 languages.