It’s all systems go this afternoon as JK Rowling tweeted that her website is back online after being revamped at jkrowling.com. The site promptly crashed, and at the same time her publisher Little, Brown announced that one of the little handwritten notes on Jo’s site, which reads ‘The Casual Vacancy’, is to be the title of The New Book!

So, the need-to-know info: The Casual Vacancy will be released on Thursday 27th September 2012. It will be 480 pages long and has an RRP of £20 (ouch!). The plot centres around a town called Pagford where the death of a man called Barry Fairweather seems to incite a war amongst the residents.

The countdown is on- 168 days until we can get our hands on Jo’s new book! For more information visit Little, Brown’s website here.

As for the website, we have re-confirmation that Jo is working on a physical Harry Potter encyclopaedia, as we reported back in October. There is also a timeline showing important events in Jo’s life and surrounding Harry Potter, as well as news and events. In the background of the website are scribbles handwritten by Jo- some obviously related to Harry Potter, others a bit more mysterious!

We hope you’re all as excited about The Casual Vacancy and Jo’s website as we are!

JKRowling.com has been updated to wish Percy Ignatius Weasley a very happy birthday. Percy celebrates his 33rd birthday today. Happy 33, Percy!

This is exciting news! After way over a year (going on two), Jo has updated her official site. It is only some very slight changes, but maybe this means more updates are in store! The last time Jo updated her site was for the release of ‘Beetle and the Bard’. So, this is a good sign that there is more to come…

The changes are the following: the title of Jo’s diary has been changed to “Everything you might want to Know,” along with new books in the link section, plus a few changes of the links.

We will keep you posted on all changes, small or big, on JKR.com! Let’s all keep our fingers cross for bigger changes!

Thanks to The Leaky Cauldron for the tip!

Jo has updated her official site to wish Ginny Weasley-Potter happy birthday!  Ginny celebrates her 28th birthday today!

After Hogwarts she became a member of Holyhead Harpies and now she works as a Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet.   She has three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna with her husband Harry Potter!

Happy birthday, Ginny!