This was in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: JK Rowling has finished a 700+ page manuscript of the next Harry Potter book, she thinks she can have it cleaned up enough to go to the publisher in 3-6 months, she’s four months pregnant (I’m guessing she’ll want the book out of her hair before the baby comes, assuming the pregnancy goes smoothly), and the desperate publishers plan to turn it around in about 2-3 months. Net result: the book should be out some time around April or May 2003.