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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I mean, does she actually write books anymore? Or is she a full time TERF now? Because that's a direct conflict between what's in her legal best interest and in her professional best interest.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

Why not both? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Blood

Some media outlets regarded the male villain who dresses as a woman in order to kill women as transphobic, given the author's past comments on transgender people.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Her professional interest would be to shut the fuck up and just live in her castle, forever rich beyond measure. She could never write another thing in her life and she'd never run out of money anyway.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

one would think so, but as of a month or two ago she's announced another book

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 11 points 2 months ago

@froztbyte @techtakes Speaking as a working writer: she's a hobbyist writer. At this point she's so rich she could spend £100K/week of her capital and still be a multimillionaire when she dies aged 100+. A novel typically takes a year to write and even JKR is unlikely to make significantly more than £100K from a book (unless it gets filmed). So she keeps writing for ego/self-esteem but not from necessity (to stop writing would leave a hole in her life).