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https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/05/jk-rowlings-new-book-failed-to-reach-2025-bestseller-lists/
GreenFox
I'm very happy I didn't know about her "new" book.
chatawillybilly
Her books shouldn't be in the top 1,000.
TupacAintDead
Fucking cunt
IgnatiusTheSaint
I mean...she will cry herself to sleep on her millions of $$...I guess?
Bardcrest
Who? She could never hope to be as good as Hatsune Miku, creator of Harry Potter.
Userlivewire
Who replaced her as the top author by volume in the UK?
Sebastopol140
CrazyCatLad
I just launched a zombie apocalypse book and I certainly will have this in common with her! Hahaha....oh...
AnonymousMockingjay
Robert Galbraith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
Rodley
Sad - so sad, hahahaha.
sleix
Funny thing was, I never knew that she was even writing anything last year, shows how much her hate overshadowed any publicity towards her writings.
malicart
She wasn't writing, some dude named Robert Galbraith was.
Jamnew60
Well, I guess spewing hate and bigotry aren’t good sales promotion strategies.l
rfleming1080
Who beat her in becoming the top author by volume?
batcountry808
Julia Donaldson - The Gruffalo
Ircy
I wish that she snapped out of her transphobic views. Get help for her own traumas. Issue some apologies. If that isn't possible I wish that she would become unable to harm others.
gnomedeplume
there's as much chance of this happening as Graham Linehan reconnecting with his family and rebuilding his career
seth1421
Good
Teratoid
C U Next Time.
TheUnnamedPoet
https://imgur.com/heZ1WT6
777mermaid777
Robert Galbraith. Conversion therapy LGBT people. That's why she used his name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
Telemapus
"Actually it's a complete co-incidence" said Rowling in a statement before sucking on a huge cigar, sipping from a cocktail, cackling, and then sailing off on her superyacht.
enderite
Writing under the name Robert sounds like gender affirming care….
She’s her own worst enemy.
AntaNce
Robert Galbraith. Conversion therapy LGBT people. That's why she used his name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath CUNT
Blackfinity
Who?
keyblader1985
wandergirl
Fuck you, Joanne! Signed, a basic - ass millennial white lady who was a total Harry Potter kid
PurifiedInTheWatersOfLakeMinnetonka
A drop of sunshine in a sea of shit.
MoopsyLD
The corn kernal in the sea of shit.
shepahrdjhon
why is she using a man's name again. Even with the JK name she claimed she used it because boys would not read it if her name was on the books. The only good thing she did was the rides and the new Monsters Unchained ride proves they would still be great without the Harry Potter brand.
AntaNce
Robert Galbraith. Conversion therapy LGBT people. That's why she used his name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
shepahrdjhon
Why is she so obsessed? From what I know she isnt even religious. Christians were burning her books. Does she just want a cookie for saying Dumbledore was gay after all the books were out?
AntaNce
I have no understanding of this bitch. She's got the 'money disease' is the closest I can come to explaining her fukken rabid crazy.
Clockworkdancerobot
I guess she forgot to buy enough copies. Look for that New York Times bestseller list dagger icon. †
swofromtherock
The list just a tally of who sold more books, it has always been a marketing toll and is sometimes political
Userlivewire
This is what republicans do. They come out with a book and then use campaign funds to buy tons of copies of it to get it on best sellers lists then write it off their taxes after giving them to schools.
rfleming1080
What does the icon mean?
Clockworkdancerobot
It's used to signify "Bulk purchases" which was often a way to artificially boost a book by buying a ton of them. Something we noticed a lot with very conservative writers. And others, but it became pretty blatant.
yqpqfrdp625772
It should be made clear: the conservative writers who were also political candidates often would purchase those books with campaign funds. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/04/07/sen-ted-cruz-illegally-promoted-his-book-with-campaign-funds-watchdog-alleges-in-ethics-complaints.html
Clockworkdancerobot
An old Newt Gingrich tactic. Though he mostly did it to use charity money and funnel it into his private pockets.
bananabonanza3
She wrote a new book? 😂😂 But she’s no longer relevant and everyone hates her for being a hateful piece of shit
AgamemnonsMemes
She had written a few others, i think she writes like.. romance/mystery or something. They're bad. But then, if you don't read harry potter when you're nine, they are kinda bad as well. The worldbuilding is shallow and the plot holes are numerous, but kids loved them because it tapped into their imagination. She got WILDLY lucky.
Sebastopol140
Even huge pieces of shit like her still have fans and followers. Some unaware of her being an awful person, some not caring.
Neednoggle
Hence the pseudonym
CrazyCatLad
I always disliked Harry Potter since 7th grade when I was a vampire but everyone thought I was Harry Potter. I am white, had a mushroom haircut, brown hair and large glasses. In retrospect I see the confusion.
ChazzK
Hot take: her writing was always mediocre at best. The movies were better than the books. And anything that wasn't the main HP series was progressively-worse trash.
stabthecrab
I always thought it was bad writing but the books were safe and present. Too bad she turned out to be neither
selej
So many plot holes that the fans think were planned that way.. No. shes a YA author. World building is not necessary in those books.
shepahrdjhon
I think even the movies would be forgotten in favor of Avatar The Last Airbender had it not been for the massive themed lands in Orlando. Imagine if Universal had instead made the lands based on Avatar instead.
Snooj
I'll counter that opinion with mine: even when she was still loved and the books were still being written I always felt that she was a poor writer but an excellent storyteller. Great winding plots and buildups and double-crosses but it only fit for children's books because children would forgive her poor writing skills. I haven't read her detective stories but I'd be adults would pass on them because of her style. And the movies are all hot garbage.
doctorId
I was smack in the middle of the target demo when they came out, like same age as the main characters even. I got just as into them as everyone else at the time, but I tried rereading them in my early 20s and just found them really boring. And it's not cause I wasn't a kid anymore, I reread the whole Animorphs series in my 30s and that shit is still captivating as hell.
wadatahmydamie
Her detective series is dogshit. Even worse because she can’t hide the storytelling behind a wall of sparkling mcguffins
aclarko
Don't mind me, i'm just here to steal "sparkling mcguffins"
Snooj
To be clear, I loved all the original Harry Potter novels. I own them all, waaaaaay long ago I purchased an extra set for my son's school library, I've read them all multiple times, enjoyed the fandom and despite everything she's become I still like the Universal and Disney theme parks. But that's the line for me. My wife bought me The Tales of Beetle the Bard and I never finished it. Something about HP and HP alone really was magical. At the time. And JK is Umbridging all of it.
wadatahmydamie
My daughter is trans and still enjoys the stories. She thinks Rowling would hate it, so she writes glowing fan mail. Actual letters. “Hey, I know you hate me and want my people dead but I think it’s just something you know you took too far but you think it’s too late to be forgiven, just wanted to say that I love Dobby”
Shit like that
BastardMan1977
lol she has to write under a different name because everyone fucking hates her for being a fucking hateful piece of garbage
mjperk
Wait, so she's now identifying as something other than what was assigned at birth? Go figure.
AlamoJoe1952
^^^^This
wisher1977
After learning who and what she’s about, I refuse to support anything HP. Besides, she ripped off half the story and the characters from 1986 cult classic movie “Troll”. I’ll never understand how some people can get so rich from ripping off other peoples ideas.
ToSisPoS
And the borrowed generously from the Worst Witch series
00Lochnessa
Cute books
teardropivyyearofthetiger
And she still shots the bed with a new pen name
TheGriffin
And her pseudonym is the name of the man who invented conversion torture
Freeasabird2015
No she doesn't, that name was used long before all her shit now.
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DidItForScience
She used Galbraith since around 2012 so that's probably not why.
marsilies
Actually, Stephen King never fully found out, because the identity of the Richard Bachman pseudonym was revealed before it became independently successful. The Bachman books didn't sell that well, and King thought the upcoming novel Misery would've been Bachman's breakout hit, but a journalist revealed the connection, and Bachman's books' sales exploded overnight.
faultysage
She used the Galbraith pen name well before she came out as so bigoted and hateful. It was originally a way to keep it completely separated from the Harry Potter series. Although it is curious she still has to publish under a masculine name.
DidItForScience
In the past male writers got better contracts and attention for their books. Though these days women seem to be taking over in general.
Lordbeezlebub
In hindsight, her using the pen name of a man known for using electroshock in gay conversion therapy should have been a red flag.
Gerokeymaster
It *was* an early sign of the kind of person she ended up being: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath It's the name of the guy who came up with conversion therapy.
WigglyBlondeNoodle
Not just separated from HP. She wanted to prove that she could hack it as a "serious" writer, which is why she is writing adult fiction now. It's seen as a much more difficult genre to get into than YA lit. But before critics figured out the new pseudonym, the book got lukewarm reviews anyway. She's a hateful loser and her books are (critically-proven) trash.
PMAW
She writes as a man because she has always wanted to be a man. That's why she hates trans people.
Freak0zoid
And the black mold in her house made her lose empathy, double down on being a woman and hate trans people.
FaeVikingPrincess
Are not mentioning the black mold clearly growing in her home?
smittyatyou
I'm shocked. Not really.
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ThisNameUnavailable
So not only is this a dogshit argument but you yourself are also transphobic. Trans women are women. Womens rights includes trans womens rights. Saying that trans women existing and being treated fairly "tramples womens rights" is transphobic.
how much of a fucking snowflake do you have to be to think that a trans woman wearing a dress and being treated as a woman "tramples cis women's rights". Like how is it conservatives are so offended and obsessed by girl cock? Is that all you jack off to?
PlusTechSqueezeBox
Your definition of "existing and treated fairly" seems to include entering whatever bathroom you want, being called special pronouns and having everyone unconditionally love you. Sorry, that's not how the world works.
Mercenarity
lol, where are these 'men in dresses' trampling on women's rights? conservatives in power are the ones doing that. for that matter, bit of an anachronism carrying the expectation that transwomen and ciswomen be in dresses as the status quo. platformed terfs like rowling, anti-trans rhetoric and legislation, and self-appointed, grabby restroom cops overinvested in strangers' genitals, are just hurting women.
JeyYoung333
Are you purposely being obtuse or are you just that fucking stupid?
SarcasticComment
makes sense when she keeps fucking doing it. want to guess what her 4th pen name will be? https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1YmVhMnZtNzVkcmdoanpmMjBuaXFvOXM1Z3IxOWN2NXZ0Y2k3ZG8xaiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/811UlZOU7mZQXjhVqd/200w.webp
ToSisPoS
Peter Jordanson
BubblesTheFish
;_; the lobsters
lezgetfukkinreal
Yeah I was trying to find the quote I read before, it was her on an older alias saying she was a Trans man and she would've transitioned if she could have. However I can't find it, so I don't know if it was scrubbed due to be proven false or what not, take it with a grain of salt or as fake info. So yeah all her pen names have all been under the guise of male names. She's a messed up individual.
FaeVikingPrincess
it's worse. She said she might have tried transitioning if she was born 30 years later and described it as escaping womanhood rather than an expression of male identity. Though she did say she felt "sexless" which sounds more like she was feeling agendered. But also said she probably would have transitioned into the man her father always wanted if she had a positive and supportive community online. She basically said "If people were nicer when I was born I would have escaped womanhood"
lezgetfukkinreal
Yeah that sounds like it, do you have a source to it?
PileOfWalthers
No, she is writing under a different name because the subject matter she's writing about is completely different from what she's known for.
777mermaid777
Wrong. She uses Robert Galbraith because he abused LGBT people which is her favorite thing to do also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
PileOfWalthers
Wow that is stretch. That's what she said
SarcasticComment
the J. K. initials were meant to obscure the fact she was a woman. She always gender swaps in defense of her work.
777mermaid777
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
It's because Robert Galbraith did conversion therapy and abused LGBT people like she loves to do.
SarcasticComment
just so many weird layers to this shit human. "gender advocate" that won't stand up as a woman while picking shit men to play pretend as.
SarcasticComment
she also released under Robert Galbraith, once again as a man.
777mermaid777
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
Because Robert Galbraith did conversion therapy and abused LGBT people which is her favorite thing to do also.
PileOfWalthers
You don't say? #2
SarcasticComment
3. her editor told her boys wouldn't read fantasy by a woman so she used JK to obscure the fact she was one. she has never written presenting as a woman even after her first commercial success obscuring the fact she was one. https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cnU2eXIzOTM4YW5rZ2Fkc2ltbG9kOWZ0czIxbnRtYTljZnc5amdjdSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/l1JMZtmpRQd2C81bO/200w.webp
PileOfWalthers
OK, good for you knowing all that, you get a gold star!
777mermaid777
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
Robert Galbraith abused LGBT people with conversion therapy because that's what she loves to do.
SarcasticComment
even the J.K. initials were meant to obscure her being a woman. She has always gender swapped when convenient in defense of her work.
SarcasticComment
to the down voters, she also released under Robert Galbraith. She had been a man across 3 pen names which makes all curious. https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1a3lsN3kweDB4aTR1eXN0bnJpdjM0ejlwMmRwNzhrb3hhOGpscXp6MyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/LKf4i5Tvt7mE0/200w.webp
swofromtherock
Kevin Nash always made me a little curious of myself.
stygimoIoch
Robert Galbraith is also the name of a dude who tried to drug gay kids into being straight through severe methods of conversion therapy. Fuck you, Rowling, you feckless sack of shit.
homemadechef
That's something publishers make women do, not something they choose.
SarcasticComment
at the very least it shows she pulled the ladder up behind her. "I'm the most successful woman author of modern history, I will never use my position to write as a woman in further publications to champion women"
Mercenarity
benefit of the doubt to the above, there's more to it than that: ( examples to unpack: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-some-authors-used-pseudonyms-throughout-history-180975598/ ). and contextually speaking, rowling is still a hypocritical terf actively hurting people by using her international platform to punch down on a tiny minority (unfold: antitrans rhetoric and the resulting legislation hurts ciswomen too), so it's fair to criticise.
Mercenarity
without that hateful, confused baggage, she'd (or he'd, if we're talking alternate realities where rowling transitions or just prefers that pronoun) probably be largely still in the 00s in terms of public perception: hated by conservatives for writing witch books, not sniping at actors from her movies, not stabbing trans fans in the back, people non-guiltily purchasing or promoting/creating merch (hogwarts legacy!) or fanworks. of course, other stuff would still be problematic ('cho chang?').
SarcasticComment
she did it 2 more times even after achieving fame. At some point it is fucking odd to be a "gender advocate" while never being the gender you claim professionally. no one tells a billionaire what the fuck to do.
homemadechef
I'm not defending her, there's plenty to attack her for, but using a pseudonym isn't really one of them.
SarcasticComment
it is when she has done it 3 times. with her stance on trans people it is fair to say she has never professional stood up as a woman because that is factual.
homemadechef
afaik as others said, the second time she did it was to disconnect the books from Harry Potter. She wanted to see if it stood on its own