JK
Rowling has said she feels “very angry” after finding out her pseudonym Robert
Galbraith was leaked by a legal firm.
The Harry Potter author was revealed as the writer
of crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling in the Sunday
Times.
She found out the leak came from law firm Russells,
whom she had assumed she "could expect total confidentiality from".
While the law firm shouldn’t have said anything, let’s
be honest it would have come out anyway, and it actually saved Rowling a great
deal of embarrassment because before the leak was made the book had sold 1,500
copies, but within hours of the leak it jumped more than 5,000 places to the
top of the Amazon sales list.
Which proves not only that there are a lot of
gormless individuals out there who will buy anything just because it’s got here
name on it, but also that the book can’t have been that good, as anybody who
tried to read one of the Harry Potter books will testify, because the law firm
involved felt the need to leak that it was written by her to get it to sell.
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