J.K. Rowling’s new book isn’t actually about a transvestite serial killer

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JK Rowling's Troubled Blood: don't judge a book by a single review https://t.co/bx9sVK2xmS
- Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) September 15, 2020

The Telegraph review chose to go big on [the character] Creed, describing him as “a transvestite serial killer” and asking “what critics of Rowling’s stance on trans issues” would make of it. But Creed is

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[cleanofslate]

honestly i couldn't give a shit what the book is about. i'm at bitch eating dry ass scones level with this woman. and why is she writing under a man's name anyway, if she has issues with trans folk?

[triviagogo29]

Lmao, for JK ROWLING, the richest most beloved most influential author in the world, to publish under a male name? None

[omni_videns]

It's not unreasonable to question if she would have grown to be as big as she is, had she published under her full name.

[emma2403]

Sure, what you say works for publishing under JK and not Joanne, but she picked Robert Whatever AFTER the huge success of Harry Potter and there's zero reason for that IMO.

[trekkiepetrelli]

WHEN WE ALL KNOW IT'S HER

JK BITCH it aint 1840

[insomniachobs]

Being rich and beloved and influential was, so goes her explanation, precisely why she did it. The idea was to write under a pseudonym to get out from under the hype and see how it did on merit.

Whether you believe the leak was genuine rather than staged as a handy sales boost when the book did modestly well rather than hugely is another thing, but I can see why breaking into that genre she might view her fame as a double-edged sword

[cleanofslate]

i could see if she was trying to break the glass ceiling/avoid potential sexism with a publisher, but jk rowling shouldn't need that even if she wrote under a woman's pseudonym. her publisher would probably know it was her regardless.

[whereisglory]

What I'd love to know is why did she choose the name of a guy who experimented with conversion therapy.

Though I'm sure it was just a coincidence /s

[queasybake]

OMG WHAT

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https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/07/jk-rowling-reveals-how-she-picked-pseudonym-robert-galbraith/312955/

There was also a doctor named Robert Galbraith Heath who did reparative therapy, but that wasn't really reported on until 2016 three years after the first Galbraith book so it is most likely just a bad coincidence.

[yami_no_hoshi]

I posted it in the other post because someone asked-she chose that name because she admired Robert Kennedy (and jokes on her because his foundation stripped her of their human rights award recently because of her toxic bullshit) and she wanted to be called Ella Galbraith as a kid. It’s also not the same name-the guy they’re talking about was named Robert Heath and Galbraith was his middle name. Someone on twitter used the Internet Archives to check wiki and there’s no mention of it in the body of his article when she picked the name and if she googled it she’d get very little since the experiments weren’t well-known before a journalist uncovered a lot of his experiments in 2016. That’s why when you google or wiki the guy now, you get lots of receipts.
She sucks but this one just reeks of a coincidence considering that name is fairly common in Scotland. I think there’s more than enough to say and criticize about her behaviour and toxicity with her actual actions.

[margerydaw_s2]

kinda feel like she should change it, though, idk.

[jirppah]

If I remember correctly she wanted to try out if she could write a well received book without disclosing herself as the writer. and then someone leaked after the book was released that it was her

[bangorilla]

she probably leaked it herself lol

[marthasback]

but for real her lawyer told his wife, who told her friend, who told a journalist on twitter https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25575269