How can anyone think that this was supposed to be a secret when the bio stated "'Robert Galbraith' is a pseudonym"?
The way it was
uncovered:
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As it turns out, one of The Sunday Times’ writers had read The Cuckoo’s Calling recently and tweeted her appreciation of the book. Shortly after, an anonymous person replied to her on Twitter and told her that J.K. Rowling was the real author.
When the editor replied to the Twitter user asking “How do you know for sure?” the user said “I just know,” and then proceeded to delete all of their tweets as well as the account.
From there, The Sunday Times decided to dig. They connected the dots between the publisher and editor of The Casual Vacancy and The Cuckoo’s Calling (they’re the same), and sent the two books plus Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to linguistic experts who found “significant similarities” between the three.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23304181
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Kate Mills, fiction editor at Orion Books, admitted she had turned down the crime novel, which she described as "well-written but quiet".
"So, I can now say that I turned down JK Rowling. I did read and say no to Cuckoo's Calling. Anyone else going to confess?" she tweeted.
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The context for the "well-written but quiet" remark:
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I thought this was well-written but quiet. And how do you get momentum for that? Oh wait...
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