Rowling was discovered to be Robert Galbraith after a friend of her lawyer leaked the information to the public.
I am proud to say, though, that when I 'unmasked' myself to my editor David Shelley who had read and enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling without realizing I wrote it, one of the first things he said was 'I never would have thought a woman wrote that.' Apparently I successfully channeled my inner bloke! Rowling provides a humorous description of what happened when she revealed herself as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling to her editor: Rowling decided to write under a male pseudonym instead of female. Rowling has defended this decision by stating that she wanted to get as far away from her true persona as possible so people would not decipher who the true author is. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer." It has come in to question why J.K. Rowling also said that she was "yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. If sales were what mattered to me most, I would have written under my own name from the start, and with the greatest fanfare. Rowling has stated publicly that: 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. Kennedy and her childhood desires to be named Ella Galbraith. The origins of the name Robert Galbraith come from her admiration for Robert F. Rowling decided to pen The Cuckoo's Calling under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, as a means to fly under the radar of the public eye and write as freely as she possibly could.
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