Experiment BL626 > Status Update

I was reading about this somewhere yesterday. Must have been liberating for her to write under a pseudonym. I'd hate to have all the baggage of the HP series and all those expectations following me.

"It’s been picked up by most news outlets, and overnight it hit number 1 on Amazon and its sales went up 158,000%" Amazing!!

I know, right?! She sure as hell didn't write for the money. You know, I actually might try out this book. Literary fiction, I can't do. But crime fictions, I can.

If you look a little closer on Amazon, #1 is the Kindle edition, #2 is the Hardcover edition. Her book is dominating first and second places.

I think I will try this too. I enjoy crime fictions. I read that J.K. Rowling wished that she could keep that pen name a lot longer. Like MandyM said, it must've been liberating for her. Too "bad" she only enjoyed it for few months. Because I guess now there will be another expectation for another books she releases with this name.

New wrinkle in the revelation: The Real Winner Of The Cuckoo's Calling Was Amazon, Not J.K. Rowling

How did you know? The news only broke on Sunday.

Woah. Good catch. The mystery deepens.

great memory, skyla. that is a good catch.

Yeah, definitely a great catch, Skyla!

Mystery solved, the tipster revealed!

that is so fucked.

that firm should be going to the mattresses, expecting a massive suit.

I wonder if Rowling will sue. She's kind of a litigious author.

Experiment BL626 wrote: "I wonder if Rowling will sue. She's kind of a litigious author."

Though I think so many lawsuits are frivolous and should be tossed out, for that it might even be justified. I get that he thought he could trust the woman, but there's a reason he (presumably) signed a confidentiality agreement.

this one's legit. and serious. they'll settle out of court, surely.

confidentiality is the bread and butter of any law firm. this is a scandal.

Yeah, hard to imagine the publisher could object too much. They must know they're in the wrong. Settling makes sense.

the law firm, not the publisher. it was their lawyer who blabbed. to his wife's best friend. who then tweeted the deets like a complete moron.

like nobody would find out it was her.

Reading comprehension, I should try it sometime. ;) Though I have the excuse of attempting to do like five different things right now... :)

Julio-Alexi wrote: "the law firm, not the publisher. it was their lawyer who blabbed. to his wife's best friend. who then tweeted the deets like a complete moron.

like nobody would find out it was her."

What an idiot.

no sweat. i had trouble remembering my own birthday 5 minutes ago

Julio-Alexi wrote: "no sweat. i had trouble remembering my own birthday 5 minutes ago"

Sometimes I think I'm a year older than I really am.

I have no trouble remembering my birthday, but my age gets harder to remember the older I get. Not sure if that's the effect of age on memory or if I just don't want to believe I'm not 25 anymore. =D

Dana wrote: "I have no trouble remembering my birthday, but my age gets harder to remember the older I get. Not sure if that's the effect of age on memory or if I just don't want to believe I'm not 25 anymore. =D"

I miss my twenties. I'm starting to go gray, and it makes me feel older than I am.

MLE wrote: "Sometimes I think I'm a year older than I really am. "

for like 6 years i had trouble remembering i was no longer 25

Dana wrote: "I have no trouble remembering my birthday, but my age gets harder to remember the older I get. Not sure if that's the effect of age on memory or if I just don't want to believe I'm not 25 anymore. =D"

OMG YOU TOO

This year, I mistakenly thought I was one year older till my sis corrected me when we went out for my birthday dinner. Heh. :P

I'd say we should form a club, but what are the chances we'd remember it? ;p

Experiment BL626 wrote: "This year, I mistakenly thought I was one year older till my sis corrected me when we went out for my birthday dinner. Heh. :P"

:D:D:D