According to JK Rowling, her decision to write and publish her latest series under a pseudonym “wasn’t trying to trick or fool anyone.”
The 52-year-old Harry Potter author published her crime story, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under the pen name Robert Galbraith in 2013 before she was eventually outed by a legal firm.
“The pseudonym was a way of disconnecting myself from all of the baggage that comes with being me,” the best-selling author told Radio Times Magazine.
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"Being me has many privileges, so this isn't a complaint in the slightest, but at the same time, as I entered this new genre, one that I'd always wanted to write in, I really wanted to go in without expectation."