JK Rowling has confessed that she authored the crime novel THE CUCKOO’S CALLING, published in April to at least some positive reviews and very modest sales (441 print units in the UK, and about the same in the US, as tracked by Nielsen Bookscan). Rowling was unmasked by The Sunday Times “after it investigated how a first-time author ‘with a background in the army and the civilian security industry’ could write such an assured debut novel.” Actually, as the paper’s books editor Richard Brooks admitted, columnist India Knight was first set on the story by an anonymous Twitter tip (from an account […]
