The BBC has been releasing a myriad of interview snippets with J.K. Rowling that she did to promote her book, The Casual Vacancy. First up is a video interview where she says she wished she had more time to edit the Harry Potter books.

They have also posted a transcript of her interview with Will Gompertz. Some snippets may be read below:

Casual Vacancy has lots of swear words in it and lots of adult themes, do you worry that children who are fans of yours will be on an internet site where you can easily download books in one click, and they’ll suddenly be faced with really quite vivid language?

Well, I hope that we’ve made it really clear that this isn’t a book for children.

I’ve been very open about what the themes are, we’ve talked about what the story’s about. I would have thought that parents can make a very clear choice… I would have to ask why have kids got such untrammelled access to the internet that they are downloading… Well, I would be more worried about other things they could be downloading if they’re running amok on the internet on their own.

There is something of Dickens about this book.

I’m very flattered! When I did start writing it I was aware that I was doing a contemporary version of what I love, which is a big, fat 19th-Century novel set in a small community. So to an extent, swear words notwithstanding, that is what the Casual Vacancy is. It is a parochial – literally – novel that’s looking at slicing through a society, with everything that that implies. That’s what I wanted to do.

Did you create it in a similar fashion to your Potter novels – you had loads of research and described carving your novels out of it?

I did, really. I always know way more than I need to know. I have backstory on every character that I didn’t need. And, in fact, some of it was in the novel and I took it out. I just need to know much more than the reader does.