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Rowling also discussed the difficulty of structuring a book and how attached she becomes to her characters. She spoke up for traditional publishers and the editorial support they offer as she explained why she didn't simply self-publish "The Casual Vacancy." She didn't just change her subject matter when she took on the new book. She changed the process. Rowling observed that with her Potter books, she did not allow anyone
-- not even her husband, Neil Murray -- to see the manuscript before she had finished. "I find that discussing an idea before I've written it," she said, is a way to kill it. But Murray was allowed early glimpses of "The Casual Vacancy." "He was -- useful," she said. Rowling reaffirmed that she is at work on a new book for young people. No new Potter is planned, but Rowling still has her celebrated imaginary world in mind. Discussing literary works she'd like to live in, she mentioned Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," then confided she also dreams of more personal territory, the old school of Harry and friends. "I do still walk in and out of Hogwarts," she said.
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