'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Reveals Rejection Letters Under Robert Galbraith Pen Name

J.K. Rowling has a busy year in 2016 with the Harry Potter spinoff, but that doesn't mean she's about to stop being awesome on Twitter. In a recent series of posts, the multi-millionaire author gave hope to writers everywhere, sharing her rejection letters for The Cuckoo's Calling, the first book she wrote under pen name Robert Galbraith.

Rowling, whose Harry Potter series made her richer than the Queen of England, wanted to get rid of her famous name to dip her toe into a different type of literature, so she created the pen name Robert Galbraith. When she was trying to sell her first book under the name, she sent out the original to multiple publishing houses, just like everyone else -- and similarly, got rejected many times over!

Last Friday, the author went on Twitter to share two letters of rejection she got under her pseudonym a few years back, long after the success of the Boy Wizard made her famous.

By popular request, 2 of @RGalbrath's rejection letters! (For inspiration, not revenge, so I've removed signatures.) pic.twitter.com/vVoc0x6r8W

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2016

One of the letters, by Constable & Robinson, claimed they "could not publish [The Cuckoo's Calling] with commercial success" and advised "Galbraith" to have his work looked over by other writers. The other publishing house, Seven House's Crème de la Crime, told the author that they were not taking new submissions.

Rowling posted the rejection letters to make a point to her followers and anyone who's had their work rejected: it doesn't mean they're any less talented or able to succeed. One fan asked the author whether she'd sent her Cuckoo's Calling manuscript to any of the same publishing houses that turned down Harry Potter, and she said there was one particularly nasty rejection letter that had come from a door she'd knocked in the 90's.

Famously, Rowling made her rounds around publishing houses to have Harry Potter out there as well, and it was a long time until The Sorcerer's Stone (originally Philosopher's Stone) finally reached shelves. The rest, as they say, is history. Shortly after The Cuckoo's Calling hit bookshelves in the UK, The Sunday Times unmasked Rowling as the real author of the crime novel.

Yes, the publisher who first turned down Harry also sent @RGalbraith his rudest rejection (by email)! https://t.co/22Jwf2u8hy — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2016