JK Rowling obtained £18million from her publishing firm in a single 12 months, it has been revealed.
The Harry Potter creator obtained the staggering sum in 2022 as a dividend for her shares in her firm, Pottermore.
The 57-year-old has change into the goal of a boycott by trans rights activists over his stances on ladies’s rights and single intercourse areas.
Regardless of this Pottermore, which is her digital publishing firm, made a pre-tax revenue of £5.7 million on a turnover of £37.8 million within the 12 months to March 2022.
JK Rowling, pictured right here on the premiere of Improbable Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbeldore, obtained an £18million dividend from her firm Pottermore final 12 months
Ms Rowling (pictured carrying a t-shirt with the message ‘Nicola Sturgeon, destroyer of girls’s rights) has been focused by trans rights activists over her views on gender
In December the multi-millionaire creator remarked that opposite to being ‘cancelled’ by her opponents, her guide gross sales go up once they lash out at her.
In an interview for Letters from Suzanne, a Substack publication by author and columnist Suzanne Moore, the creator mentioned: ‘The one time I’ve ever made reference to being cancelled, my guide gross sales went up.
‘Why am I even laughing? I can not consider I am saying these phrases. However it’s a must to mock them. I don’t take into account myself cancelled.’
The general public backlash in opposition to the creator’s views began in March 2018, when Ms Rowling was criticised for liking a tweet which referred to trans ladies as ‘males in clothes’.
Since then she has confronted a barrage of abuse from activists branding her transphobic for her views.
Ms Rowling, who additionally writes the Cormoran Strike novels underneath the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, spoke out in regards to the controversial Gender Recognition Reform Invoice which handed by means of the Scottish Parliament final month.
The invoice, which was backed by Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP and the Scottish Labour Get together, permits Scots to self-identify their authorized gender.
It handed regardless of criticism from opponents over eradicating the requirement for a medical analysis of gender dysphoria when in search of a gender recognition certificates.
LEnding her help to individuals protesting in opposition to the invoice, Rowling posted an image of herself carrying a t-shirt with the message ‘Nicola Sturgeon, destroyer of girls’s rights’
She tweeted: ‘I stand in solidarity with @ForWomenScot and all ladies protesting and talking exterior the Scottish parliament. #NoToSelfID’.
