JK Rowling is working with the police after receiving a death threat over her support for Sir Salman Rushdie.
After hearing about the attack on Sir Salman in New York state, Rowling tweeted: “I feel so sick right now. May he be well.”
Someone replied, “Don’t worry, you’re next.”
The Harry Potter author appealed to the authorities on Twitter, asking: “Any chance of getting support?”
In a later update, he added: “To everyone sending messages of support – thank you. The police are involved (they were already involved in other threats).”
Rowling, who has voiced her support for women-only spaces, has been accused of transphobia, which she denies.
Activists made her address public after she “advocated for women’s sexual rights,” she revealed last November.
At the same time, he said he had “received so many death threats I could paper the house with them”.
Warner Bros recently defended the author, contradicting the decision to ban Sky News from asking questions about her at an event on the Warner Studios Tour.