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12/2/05: ROWLING TO CHANGE HER NAME FOR NEW BOOK



Author JK ROWLING is keen to start a new project once the final book in her hit HARRY POTTER series is finished - but plans to use a pseudonym.

Rowling, who has sold over 300 million books worldwide and spawned four Harry Potter movies to date, already has ideas for a new series of books, but wants her future work to be judged away from the success of the Potter novels.

She says, "There is another book that's sort of smouldering in a cupboard that I quite like which is for slightly younger children.

"There are other things I'd like to write. But I'll need to find a good pseudonym."

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You know part of me thinks she's doing this in case it's a huge flop...she isn't that great of a writer and most of her ideas are mimicks.