Acclaimed crime novelist "Robert Galbraith" revealed to be pseudonym of J. K. Rowling [Archive]

The Man

07-14-2013, 05:31 AM

Link (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/13/harry-potter-author-revealed-to-be-acclaimed-new-crime-novelist/).

Pretty awesome.

charliepanayi

07-14-2013, 09:58 AM

Pretty impressive how they managed to keep that one quiet in this day and age.

Pike

07-14-2013, 10:12 AM

I read this yesterday and could not stop laughing.

Must feel pretty good to be two acclaimed authors.

Jinx

07-14-2013, 11:17 AM

This is kind of impressive!

I totally understand why she did it. As was said in the article, it has to be a lot of pressure to live up to your own name like that. And also being seen as a "children's author." I haven't read Casual Vacancy yet, but I've heard it's not very good. I can't make a judgment, but I expect that some people didn't like it because it was so different than Harry Potter.

Del Murder

07-14-2013, 05:37 PM

Pretty cool how they figured it out too.

Freya

07-14-2013, 06:01 PM

This is kind of impressive!

I totally understand why she did it. As was said in the article, it has to be a lot of pressure to live up to your own name like that. And also being seen as a "children's author." I haven't read Casual Vacancy yet, but I've heard it's not very good. I can't make a judgment, but I expect that some people didn't like it because it was so different than Harry Potter.
Yeah pretty much that.

charliepanayi

07-14-2013, 09:23 PM

One of the editors where I work has said she was submitted this but turned it down. A shame but hindsight is 20/20 of course.

Raistlin

07-15-2013, 01:38 AM

They were able to figure that out just by running her book through a computer program? That's impressive.

CimminyCricket

07-15-2013, 02:03 AM

This is actually really cool, I wouldn't mind reading more of her books.

Old Manus

07-15-2013, 11:51 AM

This is actually really cool, I wouldn't mind reading more of her books.She wrote a few about some lad who could do magic tricks a while back

Rantz

07-15-2013, 11:59 AM

This just in: Roald Dahl still alive and revealed to be writing under the pseudonyms "Robert Galbraith" and "JK Rowling"!

Pike

07-15-2013, 05:26 PM

One of the editors where I work has said she was submitted this but turned it down. A shame but hindsight is 20/20 of course.

I have read this too and am not surprised because getting published is 1% talent, 2% perseverance, 6% connections and 91% sheer dumb luck