JK Rowling is like the bizarro stephen king, in that King wrote under a pseudonym to prove that his writing was good enough that the books would still sell without the King brand. Rowling tried the same and flopped so badly they had to immediately leak her real name
@bitterkarella I love the Robert Galbraith novels. CB Strike.
@bitterkarella This is such old news. These books have been out for a decade. WTF?
@bitterkarella It was funny when she retweeted some praise he said about her, then deleted it when he said in another tweet that "trans women are women." Lol.
@bitterkarella Well, the jury is out on whether "Rage" or "The Long Walk" were "good enough," but yeah, Bachman was good for a solid potboiler.
@bitterkarella It absolutely doesn’t help that her pseudonym’s namesake is a conversion therapist who participated in MK Ultra independent.co.uk/life-style/hea…
@bitterkarella Seemed like a poorly thought out social experiment at the time re: the male pen name. More recently, many other things have been colossal mistakes coming from her
@bitterkarella And when King wrote self-inserts it was a way for him to process his own addictions and problems or as a commentary on what he did while in that state