there are very few people among us who havent heard of the name jk rowling best known for her sevenvolume childrens fantasy series harry potter rowling is one of the most successful authors of all time the harry potter series has been enormously successful it has sold over 500 million copies been translated into at least 70 languages and spawned a global media franchise including films and video gamesrecently rowling revealed that being a single mother who was unemployed for some time she would write after 2 am after doing the dishes and once her baby was asleep the 56yearold was responding to a question by a twitter user who asked authors about how they fit writing into their everyday schedule when they first started authors bit of a personal question so please do feel free to ignore me how did you fit writing into your everyday schedule when you first started wrote twitter user janet emsonresponding to the twitter users question rowling wrote when working in an office never met anyone else for lunch because i was using the hour to write when an unemployed single mother did the washing up at 2am only once all plates were dirty and waited for baby to fall asleep when teaching never watched tv wrote after marking meanwhile in a tweet dated march 25 rowling slammed russian president vladimir putin as he compared the wests treatment of his country to a public backlash rowling faced for her views on transgender issues on march 25 in a video conference with people from the arts literature and cultural sector putin said that the western states were trying to cancel his country with the ongoing russiaukraine war he then compared russias treatment to the public criticism rowling had for her views on transgender rightsreacting to putins cancel culture remark rowling said in a post on twitter critiques of western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance or who jail and poison their critics istandwithukrainealso read nobel winning novelist kazuo ishiguro subject of death hoax on social media priyanka chopra jonas to feature in screen adaptation of the secret daughter