So when does OotP come out, exactly?

[ElessarEstel]

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[Colli]

There haven't been any official release dates given yet, but signs and popular rumor tend to point to June/July 2003. We'll keep you posted. :D

[Ravenclaw]

My most recent data says March 03, then again, my data isn't THAT recent. And we've all heard that June/July lie at least twice in the past...

[Fleurdelacour]

Someone said Christmas 2002. Well that came and went...

It was jkr first wedding aniversairry this week, and she's pregnant.

Lets face it, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET IT!

[Remus]

I need that book - for my sanity's sake!!!

I really hope that it's a March/April release, but being realistic I reckon it'll be June/July to stay in keeping with the release of the other books

[Kristin]

It won't be out in March. Once JKR turns in her manuscript, it will take 5 months for the book to be released. That means if she turned it in tomorrow, it still wouldn't come out until the end of May.

Looks like my original guess of Nov. '03 is becoming more and more probable. :(

[Ravenclaw]

No.... No, wait. I remember seeing a quote everywhere over the news a month or so ago. "I just need to tweak it a bit and the publishers will have it." Then they said it would be out in five months. Is it too much to hope for that JKR has already turned it in?

....

Yeah, your right, probably not. :(

[Fleurdelacour]

Five months, wow that's a long time Kristin...!

They could make exeptions, its Harry Potter afterall! ;)

[Colli]

JKR has said she wants it to be perfect..

I don't really care if it's perfect. Nitpicking is one of the things that makes reading them so much fun.. ;)

[Ravenclaw]

Yeah, nitpicking is fun, but probably not for her. As a semi-author, I know what it's like to read something I've published and find mistakes and know that I can't change it. Also, if she skims message boards like these and sees people pointing out errors, it probably ticks her off. I mean, it's like a teacher telling the class something and a student pointing out a large error she made. She glares at the student and his/her grade drops a whole level. People-- Especially teachers-- don't like to be proven wrong.

[Smeagol]

There was some HP website I was at about a month ago that said the book was already to the editors..... dunno how reliable it is but I'll post it as soon as I can find it again!

[amrael]

You see, I was a huge fan of the original SW trilogy, and I knew right from the beginning that there were two more coming. So I waited first eagerly, then sort of wistfully, then I forgot about the whole thing. And 16 years afterwards... here they were. I was going to have them after all. I was sooo excited about it... only for it to go flop. I was sorely disappointed, though it must surely had to do with my being in my teens when SW came out and in my thirties when TPM came out.

My fear isn't that OotP won't ever come out, it is that I'm going to be disappointed with it.

Let's face it, I read the first four books almost in a row, so I hadn't much time to build my own ideas about where I wanted the story to go. Now after two years of shameful (and now shameless ;) ) fanfic reading, my own sort of fanfic in my head, and lots of posting/post reading I'm growing afraid. :(


But (trying madly to be hopeful) I liked GoF best of the four, so maybe I'm worrying over nothing. One thing for sure: I will rush into getting OotP the moment I can catch it, and then...

[Fleurdelacour]

What if... I prey to God... Say... OotP doesn't COME OUT THIS YEAR?! :eek:

She is going to give birth this year... She's pregnant... She has to get it out soon, before stress of premoting (well not that it needs promoting... lol) well, she'll be the the media spotlight again, with a baby...

But we love you Ms Rowling! We do!!:notworthy :notworthy

Now cxan you give us it, NOW

[ValaSarah]

Ok...if she was 2 months pregnant back in September, that puts her due date around March/April.

The editors have said it'll take 5 months from the time she submits it to when it can be taken to publication, so put that as May/June, if she submitted it around Christmastime (there's still no confirmation that she has submitted it at all).

So say she submits it this month (January). that still gives her until June/July to have the book out. March - April-May-June - that's a good 3/4 months that she will have w/ the baby before the book comes out, and promos start coming out.

Not to mention the fact she's very wealthy now (thanks to the wonderful books) - surely she'll have a nanny to take care of the lil' tyke, and can easily afford to fly the baby w/ her, if she likes as well.


Guess what I'm trying to get at is that I dont think the baby is going to keep her from promoting the book, nor should it make her intentionally delay publishing (even longer than it has been) so that she can spend more time w/ the baby.

I know babies are hard at first (I have one, and am expecting another end of February), but JKR has all the resources she needs now to make it easy, and to enjoy raising the baby, even if she is promoting the book.

Hope this gives Hope to you!

~Vala

[Colli]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Lookie! (http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?mnu=news&ptitle=Technology%20UK&tp=ad_uknews&T=news_storypage99.ht&ad=uktechnology&s=APh2njBZ2Qmxvb21z)

And for those who can't click... ;)


London, Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc said it hopes to publish ``Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,'' the fifth book of the series on the boy wizard, in July.

Bloomsbury will agree on a release date with other publishers, which include Scholastic Corp. in the U.S., after author J.K. Rowling submits her manuscript, finance director Colin Adams said in an interview.

``I expect the delivery soon,'' Adams said. ``Ideally, we would like it to be published at the same time as others, in July, but we have to be democratic about it and see what the other publishers' requirements are.''

[...]

New York-based Scholastic will need five or six months to publish the new book once the manuscript is received, spokeswoman Judy Corman said. She declined to comment further.

It's been 2 1/2 years since Bloomsbury published the fourth Potter installment, ``Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,'' which sold 370,000 copies on its first day of U.K. publication in 2000.

(no really)

[swiftsnowmane]

YAY!!! Thanks Colli! That made my night.:D :D :D :clap:

:hug:

[Seriphus]

Yay! 5 or 6 months doesn't seem that bad.

[Fleurdelacour]

RAH!!! Oh my god! This had better be true! Oh god, imagine that?! Wow! Rah! Thank you Colli! :hug:

Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah!

[Kristin]

Thanks for posting that, Colli. :)

The cynic in me, though, is saying, "But they still don't actually have the manuscript yet."

The readers want it soon. The publishers want to publish it soon. But that means nothing if JKR doesn't hand it over. (It seems that she has not been given any deadlines.)

[Ravenclaw]

Yeeeesss... Sometimes I think JKR is just slightly sadistic... why else would she take so long?

[Elfëa]

Marvelous news! :D

Can't wait... I hate nothing more than waiting... :mad:

[ValaSarah]

Awesome news!!!

To be honest, tho, I think I'll be apprehensive about an actual July date until we know the publishers have the manuscript, just like Kristin. Guess since Bloomsbury gets it first, I might be waiting even longer here in the states.


Here's to hoping I have in my hands OOTP by my Daughter's 3rd birthday! (July 29th!)


Thanks for the good, hopeful news, Colli!


~Vala