Sneaky old thing

[stgulik]

Do you miss the writings of J.K. Rowling? Turns out, she's been out there all along. She published one crime novel under a pen name, and has a second one in the works.

This is not a drill, guys: there is a new book written by J.K. Rowling available right now. You can have it on an e-reader, even, in a few seconds.

The J.K. Rowling crime novel is The Cuckoo's Calling, by "first-time" writer Robert Galbraith. (The Telegraph has a piece up about this here; The Sunday Times actually broke it.)

The book's true author was revealed by a couple of independent linguistic experts, Peter Millican from Oxford and Patrick Juola from Duquesne University, who were commissioned to JKR's published books as well as The Cuckoo's Calling and some other detective books through a program that could detect similarities.

Comments

[janejenajeny.livejournal.com]

Haa! I heard about that yesterday. ;D

[curly-queue.livejournal.com]

Seems to have caused a minor increase in the book ranking on Amazon from ~33,500 to...um... 1

[beffeysue.livejournal.com]

I think this is wonderful, and it makes sense to me why an author would want to publish under a pseudonym for a new book that's different from their best known genre of books. I'm gonna order it.

Thanks for posting this!

[celestialbeing1.livejournal.com]

I'd heard JK had a new book but I wasn't sure if it was true or not. I will admit to liking Casual Vacancy, well, I have mixed feelings about it but I liked it enough to buy more of her books. Did you buy it?

[arcanetrivia]

Says one reviewer on Jul 7, "This book is so well written that I suspect that some years down the road we will hear the author's name is a pseudonym of some famous writer."