JK Rowling’s huge non-Harry Potter earnings

While Harry Potter made JK Rowling her huge fortune, the author has continued to cash in with her other projects

JK Rowling might have made her fortune through the Harry Potter franchise, but the author is raking in big bucks from a completely different project these days.

Figures that have been revealed this week show that Rowling paid herself dividends of $27 million, reports The Sun.

The huge amount of money has come from her TV show Strike, which was adapted from her novels Cormoran Strike.

She got $22 million in 2018 and $4.3 million last year through her own agency that deals with her television work.

JK Rowling wrote the Strike novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Rowling’s production firm Bronte Film and Television Ltd were behind the successful television show, as well as her novel that was turned into the HBO series The Casual Vacancy.

The company also handled her West End Potter play.

That’s a lot going on outside of Harry Potter!

Harry Potter isn’t the only thing making JK Rowling millions. Picture: Justin TALLIS / AFP.

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Rowling has definitely been on a winning streak, with her most recent venture Troubled Blood shooting straight to the top of the Amazon book charts.

Interestingly, it was this novel that upset a lot of people.

In September, social media was alight with the hashtag “RIPJ.K.Rowling” after news spread the series featured a transvestite serial killer — who is now a suspect in another murder.

One British reviewer declared the moral of the story was: Never trust a man in a dress.

The characterisation may not have attracted the level of ire it received if Rowling had not being embroiled transgender issues which led to her being accused of “transphobia”.

In that context, a killer transvestite character was seen as tone deaf, to say the least.

In June, Rowling defended past controversial transphobic comments in a lengthy essay, which also revealed that she was sexually assaulted as a young woman.

I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2020

“I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility,” she wrote.

While her comments haven’t sat well with a lot of people, the author continues to be one of the most successful authors of all time.