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The lawyer who catapulted a promising but obscure new crime writer into the bestseller lists by revealing the author’s true identity as JK Rowling, has been fined £1,000 for breach of confidentiality.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has also issued a written rebuke to Christopher Gossage, of Russells solicitors, who confided to his wife’s best friend that Robert Galbraith, author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, was really one of the most famous and wealthy authors in the world.
Gossage said he believed he was speaking “in confidence to someone he trusted implicitly”, but the story subsequently appeared in the Sunday Times, to the dismay and rage of the author of the Harry Potter books.
The publisher of The Cuckoo’s Calling, Little Brown – which also published Rowling’s first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy – organised hasty reprints as the book, which up to that point had sold 1,500 copies in three months, shot 5,000 places to the top of the Amazon bestseller lists. In the week after the story broke it sold almost 18,000 copies.
Rowling was furious, however, and even more so when she discovered the source of the leak was her own solicitors.
“To say I am disappointed is an understatement,” she said at the time. “A tiny number of people knew my pseudonym and it has not been pleasant to wonder for days how a woman whom I had never heard of prior to Sunday night could have found out something that many of my oldest friends did not know.”
Writing on her alter ego’s website, Rowling explained: “I 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. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer.”
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