J.K. Rowling has stepped in to defend a female author after some guy tried to mansplain her *own* book to her

She wrote a book. A. Book.

Words by Sa'iyda Shabazz

From the editors of HelloGiggles

Earlier this week, author Laura Kalbag took to Twitter to share her excitement over her new book, Accessibility for Everyone.

'I’ve written a book!' she tweeted. 'It’s coming out very soon.' But in typical internet troll fashion, a man had to step in to mansplain to Kalbag that she had not, in fact, written a book.

Erik Spiekermann, a designer and typographer, said to Kalbag in a since-deleted tweet, 'Actually, you wrote a text. It took a few other people & skills to make that into a book.'

It was a perfect example of the kind of BS women on the internet are forced to deal with. Say it with us now: UGH! This example of Twitter mansplaining was so egregious that author and feisty Twitter user J.K. Rowling actually stepped in to defend and congratulate Kalbag.

Sisterhood is powerful!

Even though his tweet was obnoxious, Kalbag responded with an apology, quickly making an attempt to fix her alleged 'gaffe'.

Clearly, as a first-time author, she didn’t want to make a misstep. That’s understandable, but only if she’d made an actual mistake, which, for the record, she hadn’t.

Seeing Kalbag’s response, many other people, in addition to Rowling — who knows a thing or two about trolls on Twitter — stepped up to defend Kalbag.

Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay even offered her support.

Right on, people of Twitter!

Kalbag did something many people dream of — she successfully wrote a book. She has every right to be happy about such an accomplishment. No one deserves to have a stranger take away their moment over something trivial.

It seems like Spiekermann learned his lesson, though — after getting hundreds of clapback tweets, he did reach out to Kalbag and apologise.

That’s nice, but maybe keep your man-splanations to yourself next time.