moments with this book ... One chapter I rewrote 13 times, though no-one who has read it can spot which one or know the pain it caused me." [ 74 ] Rowling was named Author of the Year in the 2000 British Book Awards. [ 75 ] A wait of three years occurred between the release of Goblet of Fire and the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . This gap led to press speculation that Rowling had developed writer's block , speculations she fervently denied. [ 76 ] Rowling later admitted that writing the book was a chore. "I think Phoenix could have been shorter", she told Lev Grossman , "I knew that, and I ran out of time and energy toward the end." [ 77 ] The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , was released on 16 July 2005. It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release. [ 78 ] While writing, she told a fan online, "Book six has been planned for years, but before I started writing seriously I spend two months re-visiting the plan and making absolutely sure I knew what I was doing." [ 79 ] She noted on her website that the opening chapter of book six, which features a conversation between the Minister of Magic and the British Prime Minister , had been intended as the first chapter first for Philosopher's Stone , then