JK Rowling revealed as author of The 'Cuckoo's Calling'

Within hours, it rose more than 5,000 places to top Amazon's sales list. Rowling said, "I hoped to keep this secret a little longer," The Sunday Times reports. She said being Robert Galbraith was a "liberating" experience. "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name, " Harry Potter author said in a statement. She called her editor, David Shelley, a "true partner in crime," BBC News reports. For those interested in a sequel, Robert fully plans to continue writing the series. "He will probably turn down personal appearances," Rowling joked. One reviewer called the Cuckoo's Calling a "scintillating debut" and another praised Robert Galbraith's ability to "describe women's clothes." A clue that Rowling was behind the novel was that she and "Galbraith" shared the same agent and editor.