J.K. Rowling took to her website to explain how she picked her pseudonym for her mystery novel Cuckoo's Calling. The Celebrity Cafe reported that Rowling admitted using a pseudonym over a week ago.
"I chose Robert because it is one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the Potter series or The Casual Vacancy," Rowling writes on "Robert Galbraith's" website . "Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child, I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith,' and I’ve no idea why."
It really isn't a surprise why Rowling would want to use a pseudonym after her Harry Potter success, her first adult novel The Casual Vacancy because readers were expecting something similar to Harry Potter. Rowling confirms this on her website statement.
"I was yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback," she said. "It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer."
She also put the critics to rest on how it could have all been a marketing ploy to just increase sales on her novel, "If anyone had seen the labyrinthine plans I laid to conceal my identity (or indeed my expression when I realised that the game was up!) they would realise how little I wanted to be discovered," she writes. "I hoped to keep the secret as long as possible."
Though for whose who enjoyed Rowling's novel, she also hints at the possibility of a sequel. "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."
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