Rarely has news of a novel been so celebrated and so dreaded since HarperCollins shocked the world in February by announcing that a second Harper Lee novel was coming, an event her fans had long given up on and Lee had often said wouldn’t happen.
Take context from the input text and decide on the accurate relationship between 'was' and 'HarperCollins' from the options provided.
Options: publisher, operator, parent organization, director/manager