"I would written the e book earlier than sure issues occurred to me on-line," the Harry Potter creator tells Graham Norton in a brand new interview about her e book 'The Ink Black Coronary heart.'
J.Ok. Rowling has a brand new crime novel out this week, The Ink Black Coronary heart, and whereas there are apparent parallels between her experiences and the e book’s plot a few creator who faces backlash over controversial subject material, the Harry Potter scribe claims it’s merely coincidental.
Printed below her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the sixth installment of her Cormoran Strike sequence follows Edie Ledwell, a co-creator of a preferred cartoon referred to as The Ink Black Coronary heart. Per the e book’s official synopsis, Edie “is being persecuted by a mysterious on-line determine who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie.” Based on Rolling Stone, Edie “sees web trolls and her personal fandom activate her after the cartoon was criticized as being racist and ableist in addition to transphobic for a bit a few hermaphrodite worm.” Whereas detectives initially deny trying into the matter, they modify course as soon as Edie is discovered tasered and murdered in a cemetery.
In a new podcast interview with celebrated British host Graham Norton, Rowling stated that parallels between the plot and her life are nothing greater than coincidences. Rowling has been on the middle of controversy courting again greater than two years over feedback she has made on social media and in an essay a few vary of transgender-related subjects from gender affirming medical care and conversion remedy to rest room utilization.
Norton says that whereas studying the tome, he couldn’t assist however consider the way it “echoes your life,” to which Rowling says there are “extra echoes” than she realized. Nevertheless, she was fast to assert that the e book doesn't depict latest private experiences on-line. “I’d written the e book earlier than sure issues occurred to me on-line,” she stated. “I stated to my husband, ‘I believe everybody’s going to see this as a response to what occurred to me,’ but it surely genuinely wasn’t.”
She continued that the primary draft of the e book was accomplished by the point she confronted controversy herself on-line. “The fandom inside The Black Coronary heart is totally not the Potter fandom. I had this concept for the plot — it was about three years in the past now — and I stated to my two youngsters, ‘Who do you suppose is probably the most poisonous fandom?’ To my amazement, they talked about a sure cartoon, um, which I’d seen and thought was very witty and humorous.”
Rowling declined to call the cartoon however did say she was stunned by their remark: “Then I went on-line and seemed and thought, they’re completely proper. In order that’s why it’s an animator within the e book. Initially I assumed I would make it a comic book script author, but it surely’s an animator in homage to this notably poisonous fandom.”