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Why You Can't Write All The Books

Why You Can't Write All The Books

Leave some for the rest of us.

Kate McKean
Jan 14, 2019
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Why did J.K. Rowling, arguably one of the most successful authors of our time, use a pseudonym to publish an adult mystery in 2013? Was she worried all the people who liked Harry Potter—a significant number of adults and those who became adults in the 20ish years since HP came out—wouldn’t follow her on to new horizons because her first books were for k…

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