--- title: J.K. Rowling Is Not Pleased About A Workshop Using Her Face description: Rowling took to Twitter to publicly shame the website for using her photo for sales canonical: https://time.com/4428521/jk-rowling-workshop-photo/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-28T15:40:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:53.325Z og:title: J.K. Rowling Not Pleased About Being Used in a Promotion og:description: Rowling took to Twitter to shame a best-seller workshop for using her photo og:url: https://time.com/4428521/jk-rowling-workshop-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc646ccc439f187d7/6988a008196cf409fe03ca04/jk-rowling-tweet-writer-workshop-advertising.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jk rowling tweet writer workshop advertising og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: J.K. Rowling Not Pleased About Being Used in a Promotion twitter:description: Rowling took to Twitter to shame a best-seller workshop for using her photo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc646ccc439f187d7/6988a008196cf409fe03ca04/jk-rowling-tweet-writer-workshop-advertising.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # J.K. Rowling Is Not Pleased About A Best-Seller Workshop Advertising with Her Face  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jul 28, 2016 3:40 PM UTC  J.K. Rowling is having none of this. J.K. Rowling is having none of this.Ben A. Pruchnie—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jul 28, 2016 3:40 PM UTC It’s not quite like selling [fake protective potions](http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Fake%5Fprotective%5Fpotions), but J.K. Rowling is still not down with [this writing “workshop”](https://bestsellerevent.com/event?affiliate%5Fid=26431) using her photo in its promotions. Rowling tweeted on Thursday about a workshop that teaches people “how to write a best seller and create your 6-7 figure empire” and has a photo of her, along with other successful people, on its site. She implored people not to waste their money on the bestsellerevent.com workshop. > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/758613322770112512) ‘Hate’ is a strong word for Rowling, whose books are a pretty long argument in favor of love. But the workshop that will help you “become an author and show you how to double… or even triple… your income!” seems enough to have earned Rowling’s disdain. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4428521/jk-rowling-workshop-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4428521/jk-rowling-workshop-photo/"},"headline":"J.K. Rowling Is Not Pleased About A Best-Seller Workshop Advertising with Her Face","datePublished":"2016-07-28T15:40:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:53.325Z","description":"Rowling took to Twitter to publicly shame the website for using her photo for sales","url":"https://time.com/4428521/jk-rowling-workshop-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc646ccc439f187d7/6988a008196cf409fe03ca04/jk-rowling-tweet-writer-workshop-advertising.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc646ccc439f187d7/6988a008196cf409fe03ca04/jk-rowling-tweet-writer-workshop-advertising.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jk rowling tweet writer workshop advertising","caption":"jk rowling tweet writer workshop advertising","creditText":"Ben A. Pruchnie—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4428521/jk-rowling-workshop-photo/","name":"J.K. Rowling Is Not Pleased About A Best-Seller Workshop Advertising with Her Face"}}]}] ```