You know that time you had a protracted two-hour argument with your girlfriend about the hoovering? JK Rowling earnt £36,000 during that.
And you know that poo you did this morning? The one you bit off prematurely because you were in a rush? JK Rowling earnt enough money to buy two Playstations and a week in a Greek villa during that. It’s just been announced, you see, that JK Rowling is the richest author on the planet, earning £5 a second.
So even just then, when you recoiled in disgust at our graphic description of chopping a poo in half with your sphincter, JK Rowling probably made enough money to go on a three-hour shopping spree at Primark. A shopping spree that ironically would earn JK Rowling enough money to but a nice eight-berth yacht that, if she took on a two-week cruise, would earn her enough money to buy your entire family forever, basically.
JK Rowling is very fond of telling the story about how she wrote the first Harry Potter book in a Scottish cafe before going home to a damp-filled flat that she had to sleep standing up in because it wasn’t big enough for a bed. But now, if she wanted, JK Rowling could easily buy that cafe. And that flat.
In fact, if JK Rowling really felt like it, she could probably pay to have Scotland chainsawed off and scuttled out of nothing more than petty spite. Because JK Rowling is rich.
That’s probably not such a surprise, what with JK Rowling writing the most popular series of children’s books of all time which then went on to create some of the most successful movies of all time and some of the most oppressively ubiquitous spin-off merchandise of all time. But, really, JK Rowling is rich.
JK Rowling is so rich that in an hour she earns as much as a call centre worker does in a year. In a day she earns what a Premiership footballer does in a week. And in a week, JK Rowling earns enough to bulldoze everything on the planet and write a message across the Earth challenging the Sun to a fight. BBC News reports:
JK Rowling is the world’s highest-earning author, making more than £5 every second over the past year, US business magazine Forbes has announced. The Harry Potter writer, who made a total of $300m (£170m) last year, wrote the first of her best-selling books about the boy wizard in 1997. Her income was six times more than literature’s next-biggest earner, James Patterson, of Along Came A Spider fame.
That’s an incredible amount of money – so huge that JK Rowling must barely be able to comprehend it herself. She could go to a pub, drink 20 pints of beer in a minute and still come out having made quite a substantial profit.
Of course, there’s no doubting that JK Rowling earnt her money and, in a year that saw the release of the final Harry Potter book and a Harry Potter movie, we’re probably seeing JK Rowling at the peak of her earning potential at the moment.
It’s probably for the best that JK Rowling stopped writing Harry Potter books when she did, though, because ultimately her lifestyle would eventually begin to bleed into her creations. And Harry Potter And The Day Spent Throwing Faberge Eggs Off A Shopping Centre Car Park For The Amusement Of People He’d Bought As His Slaves doesn’t exactly have best-seller written all over it.
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It’s all going to turn out all right though. Eventually more people will believe in Harry potter than all the deities combined, and he will become real. Then he’ll kick the living shit out of Rowling for giving him those stupid glasses. The police won’t be able to do him for it either because he’s got all spells and stuff…
This will be at about the same time that the 11th Disneyworld (in Calcutta) will open, and the entire Disney pantheon will be made manifest in tangible form. Harry can breath life into Walt’s frozen head with a Lifeicus Zombo spell or something; and even though Mickey will declare himself King Of All The World immediately, he’ll be spending all of his time arguing with Walt about whether Jews are okay with him now or not. Well, when Walt’s not begging him to bang Minnie while he watches of course.
I, too, have earnt 5 pounds a second.
That second occurred in the afternoon of May 4th, 1992.
At the risk of being serious for a moment. I loathe that overpaid cow.
Maybe if she could manage a real or even normal smile occasionally, rather than that awful smirk she’s got I might merely dislike her.
Oh yeah, almost forget, those books are trite, mindless trash. Although they do have their uses, I keep one near the toilet in case we run out of the real stuff on a roll.
Movie rights on a book that had sat unnoticed on shelves in stores, as bad literature , for years, and having sold her soul she sells anything that goes ans still writes crap and makes a mint proving that like Kylie Minogue one needs only PR and endless promotion to make a totally inflated wealth.They are not even well written and there are so many more deserving authors of decent children’s books.But not everyone is prepared to sell their soul like her and Kylie, than heavens. But would be nice to see merit rewarded instead of mediocre.
Didn’t she just sue a toddler for making a dictionary of her crap?
I never understood that law suit at first but, having read this article, I can now see she needs the money.
She should probably have let the boy publish the book- then bought him and exclusive rights. That would’ve settled it, I think.