J.K. Rowling & ‘The Casual Vacancy’ book cover art (© Dan Kitwood/Getty Images; www.littlebrown.com, July 3, 2012)

Check out the cover design for J.K. Rowling's new book

7/3/2012

J. K. Rowling, aka the world's most successful living writer (um, at least for now — ahem, "Fifty Shades of Grey") is back with the cover of her next book, "The Casual Vacancy." Out on Sept. 27, the 512-page adult-targeted novel is about Pugford, "an English idyll" that is also "rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils." The Twitter reaction to the cover design, which shows a ballot, was mixed to poor, ranging from "Rowling should hire a typographer" to "How awful is the new J.K. Rowling cover? Looks like it was designed with a 10 [cent] budget."

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