'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling denies new book is based on 'own experience' after gender comment backlash

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If you’re still having trouble with the ethical struggle of separating the art from the artist, fret no longer! J.K. Rowling has made it easy for whatever fans she has left by REMOVING THE LINE BETWEEN REAL LIFE AND FICTION.

Harry Potter series and now pens the Cormoran Strike detective novels under the pen name Robert Galbraith, has incorporated a new element into her latest installment than anyone familiar with her recent work will recognize: internet backlash.Rowling has been one of the most vocal and visible, let's say, , lending her money and her celebrity to groups that make the world less safe for trans people, and in the process receiving death and rape threats herself. A lose-lose situation for all.

Zack Sharf J.K. Rowling recently told Graham Norton that her new novel, “The Ink Black Heart,” is not based on her own experience being slammed as transphobic despite featuring a character who finds herself in a similar social media firestorm (via Rolling Stone). The new book, published under Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is part of Rowling’s “Cormoran Strike” crime thriller series and includes a character named Edie Ledwell, a “creator of a popular YouTube cartoon who sees internet trolls and her own fandom turn on her after the cartoon was criticized as being racist and ableist, as well as transphobic for a bit about a hermaphrodite worm.” As reported by Rolling Stone, the character in the novel is “doxxed with photos of her home plastered on the internet, subjected to death and rape threats for having an opinion, and is ultimately found stabbed to death in a cemetery. The book takes a clear aim at ‘Social Justice Warriors’ and suggests that Ledwell was a victim of a masterfully plotted, politically fueled hate campaign against her.”

“The Ink Black Heart” — written by the “Harry Potter” author under her pen name Robert Galbraith — was released on Tuesday, and is the sixth book in her “Cormoran Strike” series. The crime thriller revolves around a popular YouTube creator named Edie Lowell, who is “canceled” by “social justice warriors” amid accusations that she is racist, ableist and transphobic.

J.K. Rowling has insisted her new book isn’t about her own experiences despite featuring a character who is persecuted for having transphobic views.

J.K. Rowling has written a new book about a character being persecuted for transphobic views.The announcement of the book comes after previous comments from the Harry Potter author, in which she mocked an article with the phrase “people who menstruate” in its headline and published a 3,000-word essay titled JK Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues, resulted in a significant backlash from the trans community and beyond.Among those to criticise Rowling were Harry Potter stars Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.

JK Rowling’s new book centres around online trolls and the murder of a writer and creative.Since the massive success of Harry Potter, Rowling has branched out into the crime genre, where she writes her Cormoran Strike novels under the name Robert Galbraith.The author has made headlines more for her views on trans people than her writing in recent years, however the spotlight is on Rowling’s work again as she prepares to release a new novel.The Ink Black Heart is the sixth in the Strike series, and sees detective Robin Ellacott and Strike himself team up to solve the murder of an artist.It follows the creator of a popular YouTube cartoon whose fandom turns against her as they claim the series is racist and transphobic, according to Rolling Stone.The artist begins receiving rape and death threats from an anonymous online account, and comes to the detective for help – but is later found dead in Highgate Ceremony, where her cartoon is set.Rowling is no stranger herself to being on the receiving end of vitriol online – the author has been in the middle of multiple Twitter spats in recent years, often due to her ‘gender-critical’ views.Earlier this year, the writer revealed she was working with police after a Twitter user seemingly sent her a death threat following the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie in New York.She shared screenshots of his account and posts where he had responded to her tweet about the stabbing to tell her ‘you’re next.’Rowling then confirmed: ‘To all sending supportive messages: thank you.