And let us know that JK Rowling is hard at work on the last book in her series. Currently she’s trying to decide between two titles. I think she should call Book Seven “Harry Potter and the Bawling Literary Set” as everyone from readers to publishers to movie goers are going to be crying a river wrapping their heads around the fact that this is the Last One.

Writers owe this lady a huge debt. She’s created a draft in the industry that we can all follow. The YA/Children’s market has picked up; the SFF market has never been stronger; and she’s creating a generation of readers who will think nothing of picking up an 800-pound book.

Sniff. I’m getting a little verklempt myself.

Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She has written two novels under the pseudonym Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter--both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President's teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins.
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