J.K. Rowling has updated her official website to comment on how she was ousted as the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling.  For fans who are unaware, news broke over the weekend that she published the book back in April under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Since that time the book has sold out in most online stores and there are long wait lists at libraries. The book has been spotted on eBay already for over $300!  Yesterday I purchased the book on half.com for just under $20, but now the cheapest one on there is $26, followed by $60.  The publishing companies are issuing reprint of the book which will carry a revised author biography, which reads ‘Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J. K. Rowling. So try to get a first edition because they are sure to be rare in the future!

“I hoped to keep this secret a little longer, because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience! It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name. The upside of being rumbled is that I can publicly thank my editor David Shelley, who has been a true partner in crime, all those people at Little, Brown who have been working so hard on The Cuckoo’s Calling without realising that I wrote it, and the writers and reviewers, both in the newspapers and online, who have been so generous to the novel.  And to those who have asked for a sequel, Robert fully intends to keep writing the series, although he will probably continue to turn down personal appearances.”