JK Rowling has delighted her beloved fans with the announcement of a brand new children's book.
The best-selling author, 54, will be publishing the new pages of her book on her website in daily instalments - for free.
Her latest creation is called The Ickabog, and it's an incredibly personal project for JK, who initially wrote the story for her own children more than ten years ago.
She would read the visionary fairytale to daughters Jessica and Mackenzie and to her son David to get them to sleep at bedtime.
While fans are utterly ecstatic after hearing the exciting announcement, the billionaire author urged them not see the new story as a Harry Potter spin-off.
Taking to Twitter to share her latest venture, she started off by warning fans that her new book is not a Harry Potter spin-off.
"I have a small announcement, but before I get started, I want to head off one possible source of confusion. THIS IS NOT A HARRY POTTER SPIN-OFF.
"I always meant to publish it, but after the last Potter was released I wrote two novels for adults and, after some dithering, decided to put those out next.
"Until very recently, the only people who'd heard the story of The Ickabog were my two younger children."
She added: "I've decided to publish the Ickabog for free online, so children on lockdown, or even those back at school during these strange, unsettling times, can read it or have it read to them."
After she decided to take a break from publishing, JK put her manuscript in her attic.
But as time went on, she began to think of it more and more, and knew that she had to send it out into the world for other children to enjoy.
"Over time I came to think of it as a story that belonged to my two younger children, because I'd read it to them in the evenings when they were little, which has always been a happy family memory," she wrote on her website.
JK went up into her attic to get the manuscript and bring the magical fairytale back to life.
To her surprise, it transported her back to the time of writing it, and she soon experienced an overwhelming feeling that she had to finish it once and for all.
"For the last few weeks I've been immersed in a fictional world I thought I'd never enter again," she continued.
"As I worked to finish the book, I started reading chapters nightly to the family again.
"This was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my writing life, as The Ickabog's first two readers told me what they remember from when they were tiny, and demanded the reinstatement of bits they'd particularly liked (I obeyed)."
The story about truth and the abuse of power will be published on her website from now up until July 10.
It will also be published as a traditional book in November, with JK donating all her author royalties to "projects and organisations helping the groups most impacted by Covid-19", she added.
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