Thread: JK Rowling Publishing under a Pseudonym
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Old 07-25-2013, 04:01 PM   #167
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
....She's the "victim" here...but her wishes for a quiet mystery writing career under a pseudonym is lost to her. Probably forever, unless she starts all over again from scratch with new characters and stories; a likely multiyear effort
My thoughts exactly as I was reading through. First, I took it as a marketing effort. But now I could understand how disappointed she would be.

She probably started writing this in say 2007-08 and finished by 2009-10. She waited for almost 2/3 years for the book to get a publisher: to prove that she was really talented and Harry Potter was not an accident. She even got great comments she was hoping for. And now what, we are back on page one; selling again because of brand name, not on merit. She probably will never get that opportunity again.
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