Another example: James Tiptree Jr. was a long - term spy in the Second World War and in the Cold War, a CIA agent, and an experimental psychologist, so she came up with a very
hidden pen name to write under.
Not exact matches
People can't know and like you if you're
hiding behind a
pen name or a brand or business.
Did you know that not only does Amazon allow you to use
pen names and pseudonyms, but they're actually very welcoming of writers who want to
hide their identity.
If you're concerned about privacy, if you're
hiding your real
name because you write under a
pen name, or if you just hate spam, many registrars offer private registration (the option of
hiding this info).
Other writers don't want to attach their personal image to a
pen name in order to
hide their identity.
Authors like Stephen King and Nora Roberts have enjoyed a very open claim to their
pen names; instead of
hiding their identities, they are simply used as a means to let readers know that this title may not be what is expected from their beloved author.
Not the type of
pen name you adopt because you need to
hide your writing career from employers, stalkers, mob bosses, or grannies who don't approve of your «active romance» novels (all valid reasons to write under a pseudonym), but the type you feel you have to create because you're going to publish something in a different genre.
But those of us who wrote more than «normal» always
hid our speed, usually
hidden behind many
pen names.
But you can also choose your
pen name based on other factors: if there's already an author or other celebrity with your
name or something very similar, who you want to be next to on the shelves,
hiding your identity (but honestly, this is harder and harder these days).
Starting from his
pen name, in this best - selling philosophy book, the author deepened the most
hidden sides of the modern world, its gloomy nuances and the worst flaws of Humans.
To further obscure / protect the people mentioned in your book, consider
hiding your own identity using a
pen name.
LOL — Of course we don't know who he / she is, so it really doesn't matter, but does make for curiosity when someone makes comments but
hides behind an acronym «
pen -
name.»