![]() ![]() Her military contacts also helped to construct a fake CV for Robert Galbraith. "I know a number of soldiers and I'm close to two people in particular who were incredibly generous as I researched my hero's background," Rowling wrote. I actually considered calling myself LA Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious reasons decided that initials were a bad idea," Rowling said. "When I was a child, I really wanted to be called Ella Galbraith, I've no idea why. ![]() By choosing as her hero a military man working in national security – taking a lead from former SAS solider and bestselling author Andy McNab – she created an "excuse not to make personal appearances or to provide a photograph". The decision to choose a male pseudonym was driven by a desire to "take my writing persona as far away as possible from me", Rowling said. If sales were what mattered to me most, I would have written under my own name from the start, and with the greatest fanfare." Writing on the Galbraith website, Rowling reaffirmed the line that the pseudonymous story "was not a leak or marketing ploy by me, my publisher or agent, both of whom have been completely supportive of my desire to fly under the radar. In the overall UK book charts, it reached third place, behind paperbacks of John Grisham's The Racketeer at No 1, and Rowling's previous adult novel The Casual Vacancy, which also climbed rapidly following the news, at number two. The Cuckoo's Calling, shot to No 1 in the hardback fiction charts last week, selling 17,662 copies after Rowling was revealed to be its author, charting above Dan Brown's Inferno at number two, and Second Honeymoon by James Patterson at number three. Amid the FAQs on the official Robert Galbraith author website, Rowling declared "I successfully channelled my inner bloke!" when editor David Shelley, who first read the novel without knowing who its true author was, said, "I never would have thought a woman wrote that." ![]()
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