NEW YORK (AP) – Judy Blume has many projects on her mind.
She recently helped open a bookstore in Key West, Florida, where she lives much of the year. She’s starting to promote the paperback edition of her novel “In the Unlikely Event,” set in her native New Jersey in the early 1950s. She has just launched a Tumblr account (judyblumeofficial.tumblr.com), on top of her popular Twitter feed and Facebook page. And, she hasn’t ruled out a new book, despite indicating last year that “In the Unlikely Event” would be her last.
Her thoughts on this are clearly a work in progress.
“I said the same thing after ‘Summer Sisters,'” she explained Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press, referring to her novel published in 1998. “But this time I do mean it, I am done. I think. I think.
“I’m done with long novels. This book (‘Unlikely Event’) took five years and I am 78, so it’s a good one to go out on. But I’m not saying I won’t do something smaller, shorter, that doesn’t take so long. I have a little idea, but I’m not ready to say anything.”