By Shaun Kitchener On July 24, 2013
JK Rowling has firmly denied that the furore surrounding her pseudonym Robert Galbreith was a pre-planned marketing ploy.
The popular writer released The Cuckoo's Calling earlier this year under the secret pen-name, but her identity was revealed when a lawyer leaked the vital info on Twitter.
Rowling was answering an FAQ section on 'Galbreith's website when she denied the notion.
"If anyone had seen the labyrinthine plans I laid to conceal my identity (or indeed my expression when I realized that the game was up!) they would realize how little I wanted to be discovered," she wrote.
"Being Robert Galbraith has been all about the work, which is my avorite part of being a writer... If sales were what mattered to me most, I would have written under my own name from the start, and with the greatest fanfare."
JK Rowling at the final Harry Potter premiere (WENN)She also talked fans through the thought process behind the name. "I chose Robert because it is one of my favorite men's name, because Robert F. Kennedy is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn't used it for any of the characters in the Potter series of 'The Casual Vacancy,'" she said.
"Galbraith came about for a slightly off reason. When I was a child, I really wanted to be called 'Ella Galbraith,' and I've no idea why.
"Odder still, there was a well-known economist called J.K. Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody was looking that deeply at the author's name."
Sales of The Cuckoo's Calling have skyrocketed since Rowling was uncovered as its author.
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