woot! Even if it is something we've heard 8 million times, at last it's book news!!! woooo!!!!

Stop asking for a title! She hasn't chosen yet: she's down to a short list of three, but would you really be happy if she rushed her descision and chose a rubbish one? As for a release date: she's not even nearly finished writing (about half-way through I think? Can anyone clarify that?) and a deadline can't be set until the manuscript is finished. Plus she needs to write a second draft doesn't she? She did with the others I think, definitely the first few. Just calm down and don't rush her. I'd rather have a decent book than an 7/7/7 release just for aestheticism and symmetry. Finally... Shut up you irritating Americans! It's her first award in SCOTLAND, not England or the UK, for FIVE years, not eight. Morons... (Not all of you: most have got brains. Some are just giving you a bad name. Emerson is OK for exampe). To be honest I don't think this is even news - she hasn't told us anything. She'd hardly be likely to tell us that it's coming along horrifically would she?

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM MMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!! !!! my heart started pounding madly when i first glanced at the news (BOOK 7 GOSH!!!). well congrats jo 4 winning the award but somehow i'm feeling rather uncomfortable at the moment at the thought that she was unable 2 present herself 2 accept her award. she must be really working hard and as belisto said she must have set herself a deadline so i cant help but feel that she's lagging behind at the moment and she seems slightly stressed out too. well, personally i cant get any work done right when i'm stressed out (as i've experienced during exams) but seriously i cant contain myself till book7 comes out either but i dont want it 2 be rushed off. i prefer an impressive book 7 even if it is long awaited rather than a feeble rushed book 7. so jo plz dont get too affected by the comments and stay calm. we are all looking 4 a breath taking book 7!! so guys plz relax and dont get her to rush through the book

doesn't "news" imply that we learn something new book 7 has been "coming along nicely" for the better part of a year. Give us a pagecount or a detailed description of work done or something jeeze.

What... final book? Is this the last one?

GREENEY - ERR, it was a joke. Get a sense of humour

@LWaite : Are you for real LWaite???! No, din´t you know, the book everyone is waiting for isn´t the final one, this is the second one, ( not)! ya right! sigh

@ shilpa; you are right shilpa! Now I feel a bit guilty that I think it is good that she has set a deadline, I mean she should be able to finish it anytime she wants without being under too much stress! I can´t pretend that Im not excited if she has written a lot and sort of has some date which she is working around but I rather wait for the book than have it rushed out and have her stressed just so impatient fans ( me included) don´t have to wait longer. She does have a family...

thank god! i just hope she tell us when it's coming out soon... my summer sleep away camp schedule is waiting for it!!! if not, i'll leave for camp for a day to go to the midnight party and read the book I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER

Nicely.. just NICELY!? My creative writing teacher would kill me for using that word.

I am happy that JO got the award. I cant wait for the 7th book but I agree with TomMarvoloRiddle if you rush her and she makes a mistake you dont want to know that you were one of the people trying to rush her. I really want to know the title but in a way I like guessing and fantisising especially since this is the last book and after we will have no Harry Potter books left to guess about. I wish she could write more but I definitly think that she is more than capible of writing a good ending to an amazing series.

Great that the book progresses well. Of course it's always lovely when Jo wins some award-thing ;D, but it's even better when she doesn't attend the show because she's writing, yay! Go on, hurry up, I'm WAITING! :D

Now this is real news! Not all that OOTP movie stuff. All I want to hear about right now is JKR and Book 7! That's what gets me super excited, even if it's the littlest thing like that haha. But I don't consider that little, I consider that huge. And if it's coming along nicely, then I don't think she's going to need another year to write it, so I hope that means it's coming out this summer! I wouldn't really want it out during the school year next year, and I can't wait till 2008. So yeah i'm excited! If it comes out on 7/7/07 it's only 221 days till then!

OMG!!! JK i beg you please finish it! please, have it by next summer!! Please!!!PLEASE!!!

To LWaite: If you just found out to be a HP fan, then here is the up to date news: there are only going to be 7 books. 1) HP and the Sorcerers Stone 2) HP and the Chamber of Secrets 3) HP and the Prisioner of Azkaban 4) HP and the Goblet of Fire 5) HP and the Order of the Phoenix 6) HP and the Half Blood Prince and 7) HP and the .....??? The last book (number 7) will be release someday next year, this is what everybody is waiting for in all HP fan sites, the release date, the name of the book and so on... Hope it helps you on your way thru being a HP fan!!

Coming out nicely...? I hope that means shes almost done lol

Coming out nicely...? I hope that means shes almost done lol

I'm waiting the title of book 7 on Christmas, I really want it; that would be a very good Christmas gift from Jo to us. :)

Congrats Jo! =] Im kinda sad that the book is coming along cause Harry Potter is coming to a end! *cry*

Man, "coming along nicely?" I want to know the title so I can dream and ponder and kill myself trying to imagine the book!!!!!! Please, give us an early Christmas present?!!! *begs*

Yay!!! the 7th book should be coming out in 2008 then!! hopefully not 2009 though...that's a little far away! btw can you guys sign this petition to stop david yates from cutting 45min from the 3h he's already filmed?? here's the petition: http://www.petitionspot.c om/petitions/Harry_Potter _Order_of_Phoenix

great

Congrats Jo! You really deserved that one = ) Nice to hear that the book is coming along well. The still unknown release date can not come soon enough ; ) ~Moaning Myrtle

YEY!!!! Go Jo!! she 100 percent deserves it! AND... we get to hear that she's writing! i love news like this...

I love Jo. I didn't know that it had been that long sice she'd gotten an award in Scotland. That seems odd to me.

I wish it would come along nicely into my hands.

Jo, you totally deserve that (10X)! YAY! We love you Jo!!!!

Go JO!!!!! u sooooo deserve it!!!! Congrats!!!! OMG i can not wait for the 7th book!!!!! i don't know what i can't wait for more, the OoTP movie or the 7th book!!!!

YYYAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! Im so excited I might feint here and now

That's it?! It's been "coming along nicley" for some time now, hasn't it? Well, I hope we get more news soon, at least she could tell us the three titles she has in mind.

Go Jo!!! I can't wait for the seventh book to come out!!! though i rather wait for a while and have it be really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really great, awesome, and amazing!!!!

can it come along nicely a little faster perhaps? lol, jk.... don't worry no pressure jo... (PPPRRRRRRRRREEEESSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUURRRREE E)

i really dont think this is BIG news, but im glad 2 be gettin something! when ever i hear something about book7 i get my hopes up and then they drop like a rock thrown in a pond after i read it........but i must say i am glad that she isnt given ANYTHING away!

4got to say good job jo, u deserve it in my last post!

im glad its coming along nicely....if only it was coming along faster!!!

Congratulations on Jo, it's also great to know that book 7 is going great.

YES Book 7 news! I mean the movie 5 news was great and we had a few awesome weeks but, common..... Book 7 is gonna be a thrill ride!!!!! So, it's coming along nicely :) that's our jo, I feel like all 6 books are really smooth, as in, you gradually get into the story with every new detail. GO JO!!!!!

flsilva, I was just hoping the series would last longer. I don't want the series to end.

All right! Now this is the kind of news *I* like to hear, rather than the $hit about the stupid movies!

Nice to hear. Can't wait till the 7th, Mystic Kettle of Nakeldirk is really an encouraging title...

That's a good thing to know. I was deathly afraid that the HBP movie would come out before book seven. If it did, I wouldn't have been able to go see it. I want the plot to be resolved and have some closure before I can watch *chokes* Severus kill *sobs* Dumbledore.

five years??????????!

Congrats Jo!! nice to hear some news about HP 7. even if it is only that the writing is "coming along nicely" at least it's reassuring us!!!

I'm so happy for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I need your opinions. Do yall think Harry will die in the last book? My friends keep saying he has to die or else Voldemort will never die. Then I say Yes Voldemort can die with Harry still alive. Harry just has to kill Voldemort by himself and not have anyone else kill Voldemort! I need that book to come out or else i'll die!

cant wait for the book to come out!!!

cant wait for the book to come out!!!

cant wait for the book to come out!!!

cant wait for the book to come out!!!

Yay Jo!!!!Congrats!

do yall think harry will die in the last book?