J.K. Rowling releases official statement regarding “The Cuckoo’s Calling”

by · July 15, 2013

J.K. Rowling has just tweeted a link to her website, where she has posted an official statement about Robert Galbraith and The Cuckoo’s Calling. The statement is in the same vein as the information she has previously given to the media. Here is the post in its entirety:

I hoped to keep this secret a little longer, because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience! It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name. The upside of being rumbled is that I can publicly thank my editor David Shelley, who has been a true partner in crime, all those people at Little, Brown who have been working so hard on The Cuckoo’s Calling without realising that I wrote it, and the writers and reviewers, both in the newspapers and online, who have been so generous to the novel. And to those who have asked for a sequel, Robert fully intends to keep writing the series, although he will probably continue to turn down personal appearances.

You can see the tweet here:

What I have to say about being Robert Galbraith and writing ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’: http://t.co/glyGBv1x2n

– J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 15, 2013

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Jessica J.

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