'To Kill A Mockingbird' Author Harper Lee To Publish Second Novel, Twitter Goes Into (Comedy) Overdrive

Turns out Harper Lee had a 2-book deal.

— Mo Rocca (@MoRocca) February 3, 2015

Harper Lee just made Axl Rose feel like he rushed 'Chinese Democracy.'

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 3, 2015

Harper Lee is going to publish a sequel after 55 years...

and you people think I write slow.

— George RR Martin (@GeorgeRRMartin_) February 3, 2015

Lazy author Harper Lee to release 2nd book.

— Mike Birbiglia (@birbigs) February 3, 2015

55 years ago, Harper Lee told me she was "just going out for a pack of smokes."

— hey Bosh (@TheBosha) February 3, 2015

Harper Lee needs to learn when to give it a rest.

— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) February 3, 2015

*pretends he knew Harper Lee was still alive*

— Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) February 3, 2015

Who knew my Twitter feed had so much Harper Lee material that had thus far gone unused.

— Paul_Cornell (@Paul_Cornell) February 3, 2015

UPDATE: Harper Lee decides to not publish novel after checking Twitter.

— Colin Jones (@colinjones) February 3, 2015

None of these Harper Lee jokes are any good IMO. Not surprising, I don't think this was an eventuality anyone brainstormed for.

— be shrill, my heart (@theshrillest) February 3, 2015

Taking Harper Lee's lead, I might tweet some of the stuff sitting in my drafts folder.

— Moose Allain (@MooseAllain) February 3, 2015

Harper Lee has inspired me to finally write a second good tweet, keep an eye out for that

— RopesToInfinity (@RopesToInfinity) February 3, 2015

Yeah, but, guys, Superman has got his first new power since 1949, and I can't help thinking this Harper Lee thing is a spoiler.

— Gary Bainbridge (@Gary_Bainbridge) February 3, 2015

"What's her fookin' rush?" - Ian Brown and John Squire react to the Harper Lee news.

— Jason (@NickMotown) February 3, 2015

J.D. Salinger's estate just announced the July publication of HOLDEN CAULFIELD: STILL CATCHIN'

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 3, 2015

Harper Lee releasing a new novel. Your move, Dr. Dre.

— Eli Braden (@EliBraden) February 3, 2015

This Harper Lee/D'Angelo rivalry is really heating up.

— Adam Zopf (@adamzopf) February 3, 2015

Fine, I’ll write a third book. Game on, Harper Lee. Game. On.

— Mike Monteiro (@monteiro) February 3, 2015

If she really wanted to hit it big, Harper Lee should've written an open letter to the mockingbird.

— Ferrrgle (@Ferrrgle) February 3, 2015

The real shock would be if Harper Lee said it was the second volume of a trilogy.

— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) February 3, 2015

To Kill A Mockingbird 2: Electric Boogaloo RT @AP: BREAKING: 'To Kill A Mockingbird' author Harper Lee to publish second novel this summer.

— Matt Round (@mattround) February 3, 2015

Faster Mockingbird! Kill! Kill!

— James Cooray Smith (@thejimsmith) February 3, 2015

Possible Harper Lee 2nd novel titles: The Mockingbird Strikes Back, To Kill Another Mockingbird, To Seriously Injure A Woodpecker.

— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) February 3, 2015

Can't believe Harper Lee didn't go with: 2 Kill 2 Mockingbirds

— Dan Wilbur (@DanWilbur) February 3, 2015

*60 years later*

Harper lee looks around.

"Wow. We're still this racist? All right, send out book two, I guess."

— Jonas Samuelle (@JonasSamuelle) February 3, 2015

Hopefully Harper Lee's 2nd book will actually include information on how to kill a f*cking mockingbird pic.twitter.com/h7SYG0TUmu

— THE STUDIO EXEC (@studioexec1) February 3, 2015

as soon as it's published she'll notice a spelling mistake on the first page and be all "knew I should have read it through one more time"

— Keri (@kerihw) February 3, 2015

And she lived Harper Lee ever after.

— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) February 3, 2015

Yeah I sure do hope Harper Lee has sorted *his* writer's block pic.twitter.com/vOBkkm2sMq

— Emily Reynolds (@rey_z) February 3, 2015