J.K. Rowling Publishes Top-Selling Crime Novel Under False Name
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Have you
read the book named “The Cuckoo’s Calling”? It’s a
detective story, a debut novel released earlier this year by a former British
military man named Robert Galbraith.
But the
hidden truth under that pseudonym is the “Harry Potter” series creator J.K. Rowling.
“I hoped
to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been
such a liberating experience,” said Rowling. “It has been wonderful to publish
without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers
to readers under a different name.”
“The
Cuckoo’s Calling” is a detective story about a war veteran turned private
investigator who is called in to probe the mysterious death of a model.
The
truth is this novel has climbed up to the top selling novels in Amazon and received
tons of good reviews from readers. Rowling thanked her editor David Shelley,
the publishing staff who worked on the book without knowing her identity, and
also the reviewers who praised it without knowing her authorship.
She
planned to keep writing the series and the second book is expected to be
released next summer.
Now her
identity is revealed, “The Cuckoo’s Calling” will be reprinted with a revised
author biography, J.K. Rowling.
(Source) This article also originally appeared on Lipstiq.com
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