LONDON, July 27 — A fan Q&A posted to Goodreads and an updated website for J.K. Rowling’s pseudonymous author of The Cuckoo’s Calling reveals more about the author’s motivations and intentions.

Corresponding with the publication of The Casual Vacancy in paperback, Rowling’s first piece of adult fiction after the youth-oriented Harry Potter series, the author fielded a fan-picked question about her authorial purpose.

Characters in The Casual Vacancy struggle to change themselves, with hypocrisy and dishonesty identified by Rowling as major themes.

But what did Rowling hope to achieve by showing us the uglier side of human motivation, asked Goodreads member Anne Gunden.

“I wanted to show how humans can have ugly feelings that they might prefer not to acknowledge,” she wrote.

“To judge someone else, to declare them substandard, to conclude that their misfortunes are due to inherent character flaws, can be a way of boosting our own self-esteem.”

“Yet none of that has to stop us doing wonderful things; perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference... If we make decisions in small matters in the awareness that our actions can have a huge impact on others, we will begin to make a difference.”

Meanwhile, Robert Galbraith’s website has been updated to reflect the widely publicized fact that the pseudonym hid Rowling’s identity as the author of a well reviewed mystery thriller, albeit one whose desirability shot up once her identity was discovered.

The pen name was an amalgam of her favorite male forename — “mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the Potter series or The Casual Vacancy” —  and a childhood wish for a different name altogether.

And The Cuckoo’s Calling refers to a poem by Christina Rossetti, entitled A Dirge.

“I was yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback,” she explained.

That she got, as two TV production companies contacted “Robert Galbraith” with regard to adapting the novel for the small screen. — Afp-Relaxnews