How to make a point

[fpb]

The world is full of people who think they can see through the motives of others, and that those motives are always bad. JK Rowling is a favourite target: hugely rich, quite pretty, and never giving an inch on her private life, she is an obvious target for envy and spite. Of course, the revelation that a mildly successful and critically very well received detective novel – The Cuckoo's Calling – had been written by her under a pseudonym sent the crowd into overdrive. In certain circles, it became Gospel to claim that the whole affair was a marketing trick thought up by the greedy and talentless (wrong on both accounts!) Rowling.

So Rowling not only forced the people who'd given the secret away to make a large payment to a charity of her choice, she herself earmarked THE NEXT THREE YEAR'S PROFITS from The Cuckoo's Calling to that same charity. In practise, she is giving away all the money she would be making because the book was revealed as hers, and you may be sure it will be a tidy sum. The charity in question just think they died and went to heaven.

Come on, lads and ladies. I have no doubt that you will find a way to claim that this was all selfish propaganda and market manipulation. I am just waiting to hear how, but I am sure that nothing is beyond the creativity of your hatred.

Comments

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

For the most part, as far as I know JK Rowling is a pretty good person.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I wasn't writing for you, mate. You're sane.

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I'd say that a lot of the people lashing out at her are themselves envy-ridden midget-minded people of the sort Ayn Rand spent a lot of her venom on...the kind who would love to be authors themselves, but couldn't finish a publishable book to save their lives.

JKR's not perfect; she's done some things I don't agree with, and the HP books themselves often have bad plot holes, but she's light-years above those types.