JK Rowling has slammed a troll for sending her death threats on social media and claimed that attempts to "cancel her" have actually had the opposite effect.
The Harry Potter author shared a screenshot of a vile message she received on Twitter on Monday.
In it, a user called Sam wrote: "I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox".
And when Rowling shared the post with her 14 million followers, she made light of the comment, replying: "To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go."
Another user then asked if the threat was due to previous comments the 55-year-old made regarding trans rights after taking issue with an article discussing “people who menstruate” last year.
Rowling replied: "Yes, but now hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me I’ve realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever."
She said at the time that she had "concern" about the "huge explosion in young women wishing to transition".
She tweeted: “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
Her views were slammed by the likes of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Eddie Redmayne.
Rowling defended her comments and said: “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction.”
After the brief Twitter interaction on Monday, Rowling ended by saying: "Got to get back to my chapter now, but to all the people sending me beautiful, kind, funny and supportive messages, thank you so much."
The author's controversial comments don't seem to be affecting her sales figures.
Her Cormoran Strike series, which is written under the penname Robert Galbraith, recently hit over 100,000 audio downloads.
However, while her sales are still rife, many people have taken to other methods to show their disgust.
Last year, her golden handprints at a tourist hotspot in Edinburgh were vandalised with red paint.
There was also a trans pride flag painted nearby the prints.
The handprints were engraved in the area in 2008 after Rowling was awarded the Edinburgh Award in the same year.
The author had lived in the city before her books made her a worldwide name.
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