Rowling Proves Her Commitment to Transphobia in Her New Novel,” a Vanity Fair headline claimed.Ī bookstore in Perth, Australia announced they will no longer stock any of the Robert Galbraith novels, to make the store “a safer space.” The shop owners said “There are more worthy books to put on the shelf, books that don’t harm communities and won’t make us sad to unpack them.” Rowling expressed her support of gender-critical feminism earlier this year, detractors were all too happy to re-launch their smear campaign against her once they caught wind that one of the characters in Troubled Blood was allegedly a cross-dresser or a “man in a dress.” Rowling, author of the legendary Harry Potter series, released a new book on September 15, 2020: “Troubled Blood,” the fifth installment of the crime fiction series that she pens under the name Robert Galbraith.īecause J.K. We could all use more childhood wonder and magic.īut if his next adventure (if there is one) features Voldemort’s child who happens to be a cross-dressing killer, then I think we might need to take away Rowling’s pen for her own good.J.K. The world has far more horrible deaths and tragedies than it know what to do with. There’s more murder mysteries out there than there are red herrings in the entire Agatha Christie catalogue. Still, if it drives Rowling back to writing children’s books, perhaps it is not such a bad result. The only way to get people angrier about it would be to cast Kevin Spacey as the transvestite killer. It’s hard to see this one being made into a TV series without a backlash. Meanwhile the first four Galbraith books have been made into television series (you can watch them on Foxtel). What you get as a subscriber to The Daily Telegraphĭownload our app and stay up to date anywhere, anytime That’s going to be an interesting conversation in the office. Do you go for the money or the public relations? On the other you have a wave of social media anger that is bad publicity for your carefully cultivated image. On the one hand you have a money-making machine. Her publisher is going to face a difficult decision. It was always going to be and all the publicity might even help it. Well, Troubled Blood will be a bestseller. Ian Rankin, who I consider to be the finest murder-mystery writer still going, had a very similar character in his book Tooth And Nail. It’s all very well saying books are written a year or more in advance - they are - but she’s been hammering this subject for far longer.Īnd as a plot device it’s not even original. But, after Rowling has been campaigning on this issue and being accused of being “transphobic”, including such a character is a bit tone deaf, to say the least. The stars of The Footy Show would never get a gig if that was the case. One British reviewer declared the moral of the story was: Never trust a man in a dress. I’m sure that was a complete accident.Īnyway, social media is suddenly alight with the hashtag “RIPJ.K.Rowling” after news spread the latest in the series features a transvestite serial killer - who is now a suspect in another murder. “Somehow” the news got out that Galbraith was in fact the genius behind Harry Potter and a book that seemed destined for the bargain bin instead jumped to the bestseller list. You might remember she started writing these a few years ago. Rowling’s latest book is a murder-mystery called Troubled Blood, written under her pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. Rowling’s new murder-mystery book may have killed off her adult writing career.Ī decade ago, suggesting that the writer of Harry Potter could be drummed out of the industry would see you branded as madder than someone who wants to go on a tour of Wuhan’s wet markets once tourism reopens.
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