“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.
The character is doxxed and subjected to rape and death threats before she is later found stabbed to death in a graveyard.Rowling has herself been accused of possessing transphobic views and been subjected to death threats — but she says any parallels to her new novel are simply a coincidence.“I should make it really clear after some of the things that have happened the last year that this is not depicting [that],” she told British comedian Graham Norton on his Virgin Radio UK show this past weekend.“I had written the book before certain things happened to me online.
I said to my husband, ‘I think everyone is going to see this as a response to what happened to me,’ but it genuinely wasn’t.
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