A few more helpful details .......... ?

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I'm looking forward to JKR's new book. HP is not distributed by Bloomsbury in Canada any more, but by Penguin, and of course in the U.S. HP is published by Scholastic. Perhaps JKR wanted to have the same publisher publish her new book in North America and in Europe this time around? There really could have been many, many factors that influenced her decision.

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Originally Posted by taustin

You might think that, but contracts for new writers (which she signed with them for the 1st HP book, and possibly the 2nd and 3rd at the same time, that's not uncommon) are often . . . not very favorable to the writer. In fact, they're often outright screw jobs. Once you've got one (or three) books of a series with one publisher, it's generally a bad idea to switch. And there may have been a right of first refusal on any new books in the series for said publisher.

In any event, it's not at all uncommon, especially for a writer looking to do "something different" than what they're known for. Lois McMaster Bujold is a loyal Baen author, but when she wanted to do some fantasy (rather than science fiction) she went to a different publisher "just because." And when she went back to science fiction, she went back to Baen.

If you're talking about the Chalion series and IIRC, Bujold "auctioned" the idea and Eos offered the deal that she liked the best. Rowling could have done the same thing.

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[QUOTE=fjtorre................... she's generally raked in the cash without pandering or grubbing. Or leaving (visible) bodies in her wake.
Nicely done, really...........[/QUOTE]

Ah, in that case my apol's, and I agree with all you said, particularly the above.

And I agree, I don't think she does care...... it's a challenging hobby now, as it were, and good luck to her for it.
She's probably writing for herself now.

Her recent "hunt the ancestor" project she embarked on was fascinating, and showed a side of her rarely seen by the public.
Her charity work, and philanthropy, show she's got things more important to her than writing a best seller - but if it came again, there you go.

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Originally Posted by DrNefario

A few more helpful details in the thread title wouldn't have gone amiss.

Leave it out !

I've only just got the hang of putting links in, I'm working on getting a word crossed out next .... cor..... this is Mr. TechDunce you'm talking to, you know......