The SE files podcast instagram showed a screenshot where JKR confirm the cover for Hallmark Man is chosen

I’m getting more excited for this book every day, so nice to anticipate book launches. I never camped out in front of the bookstore for HP launches but I was pretty intense about them , hahaha.
My parents wouldn't let me camp out for HP either, but there was one time, I think it was for the Half Blood Prince book, where we left home at 2am to drive for hours on an empty motorway to a campsite, and I pleaded to swing by the 24-hour Tesco on the way so I could pick it up. I remember walking in and noone else was there and there was a massive pallet stacked high with the book and taking one of them and getting to buy it in the middle of the night felt like such an achievement, bless me. I was a mid-teen at that point.
Not many months now until Strike 8. Eeeeek. I'll be getting the hardcover, as my collection so far has been paperback for books 1-5, then 6-7 are hardback. This is because I only found Strike about 4 years ago, so I bought the first one as paperback, loved it, bought books 2-5 in one go as paperback in Waterstones, taking the only copies left on the shelf, and then I pre-ordered Book 6, read it as it released, and the same for Book 7. As each book gets bigger and bigger I don't mind that the newer ones are hardback. I saw the paperback of Running Grave in the supermarket and thought it would get wrecked too easily as it's too thick and the pages too small, for me. I am also starting to buy the ebooks when they appear for 99p. I've got half of them so far, and periodically one of them will go on sale, that way I can perhaps do my re-reads in comfort on the ereader. With regards to re-reading before Book 8, I'm not sure I'll have time to read them all again, as my TBR is long already, but I think I will at least re-read The Running Grave, there's so much detail and so many moments I want to revisit.