In fact, I'm going to argue that in today's competitive and fast - changing digital environment, experimenting with
multiple author names will seriously hinder your ability to increase your overall readership and sell more books.
Not exact matches
Most accept the plausability that much of Moses culture and mythology could have been an amalgum of
multiple real persons or at least
multiple authors penning under his
name.
Since we reported Friday that
multiple authors had asked to remove their
names from a high - profile 2011 Lancet paper about a risky transplant surgery, a few readers have wondered: Should this be allowed?
I've already picked out an
author name and in the process of setting up another blog (I'm used to juggling
multiple blogs so it isn't really a big deal for me to have a handful of
author blogs).
Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance)
author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing
multiple pen
names and genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations of indie books, and working the cons to get in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).
The company has been
named the No. 1 self - publisher by Top Consumer Reviews
multiple years in a row and will continue the tradition of excellence for all
authors.
I don't think anyone's listed all of them in one list, but if you read enough around the publishing industry, you will encounter
multiple partial lists, several surveys, and quite a few shoptalk stats swaps that document these comfortably independent
authors who may not be a household
name, but don't care because they sell enough books to equal, exceed, or comprise their day job.
The library near me is really small and isn't even open 7 days a week, and if they can only afford a handful of
authors, they may want to spread out their
authors among
multiple genres as they want
author events to draw in new people because they are «
names.»
It's ONE
author account with
MULTIPLE pen
names.
There are
multiple reasons for self - publishing, the first usually being that the
author doesn't want to jump through hoops to find an agent, an editor, and then shop around the big
name publishers.
I know several kids in high school and even middle school who proudly proclaim they're published
authors with
multiple titles to their
name.
You can set up
multiple site
names (your
author name, facebook pages, books, etc.) and control all of them from one dashboard.
The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one
author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be
authors who wish to put their
names on it and sell it as their own original work, resulting in
multiple copies of the same worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.
With The Most Dangerous Thing, the
multiple award winning
author — recipient of the Anthony, Edgar ®, Shamus, and Agatha Awards, to
name but a few — once again demonstrates how storytelling is done to perfection.
If there are
multiple authors with the same
name, we'll reach out to you via email to verify.
For a
multiple - title fiction
author, it can provide definitive information for the order of books in a series or for the back story on the
author's characters (whose
names, of course, can be important search terms for the book).
If this is an anthology or a
multiple author book then please put Multiple Authors as the name and list the authors at the top of your book desc
multiple author book then please put
Multiple Authors as the name and list the authors at the top of your book desc
Multiple Authors as the name and list the authors at the top of your book descr
Authors as the
name and list the
authors at the top of your book descr
authors at the top of your book description.
She branched out into a second pen
name writing YA Fantasy, hit the USA Today bestseller list
multiple times with each pen
name (and without the backing of a publisher), sold over 300,000 copies of her books worldwide, and is now making a good living as a midlist
author.
Of course it's up to you, but factoring in your writing career as an
author of
multiple books, marketing and branding, the best play here is to use your
author name or your chosen pen
name as your domain.
Multiple authors, up to seven, should all be listed by last
name and initials.
In fact, most successful self published
authors have
multiple books to their
names because a series does create better chance to sell.
I've also seen some successful
authors who had
multiple website pages — one for each genre he or she wrote in — clearly labeled as «mystery, written as
Name X» and «thriller, written as
Name Y» — it's great for
authors to write whatever floats the boat, but you're definitely on point that unless care is taken, the reader can be very confused.
If there are
multiple authors, the first
author listed is the
name that is used for the alphabetical lineup.
This is when
authors leave reviews... good or bad... with
multiple identities and fake
names to either promote their own books or sabotage other
authors.
Multiple big
name self - published
authors have laid out their budgets for professional editing, formatting, cover design, etc., and it tends to amount to a few thousand dollars, sometimes less.
Pen
names exist for a reason, and there are plenty of
authors out there writing in
multiple genres under
multiple pen
names and making diversity work for them.
At this time, we only allow one
author per account, although we are working on adding a feature that would allow us to link
multiple names to one BookDaily account in the future.
There are also
authors who juggle
multiple pen
names and write in
multiple genres.
No, you can certainly use your real
name, but many
authors do publish under pen
names, and I just wanted to stress that you can have
multiple author central accounts (or assigned to) different pen
names.
When Smashwords or our retail partners receive your cover, it will often be converted to
multiple smaller sizes, so don't make your title text or
author name too small, otherwise it'll be unreadable when it's shrunk down to thumbnail size.
And if you happen to have a network of
author friends and colleagues who write in the same genre, start your own list and give it a catchy
name and put a compilation of your books in at and then harness the power of
multiple networks when it comes to petitioning fans for votes and exposure!
Author Stephen King wrote
multiple books under the
name Richard Bachman, in part to try out new ideas, but also because his publisher advised him not to put out more than one book a year.
Authors like J.K. Rowling, Seth Godin (
multiple New York Times best - selling
author and prolific blogger), and Stephen King, to
name a few, have embraced the self - publishing model.
His was the marquee
name * among five
authors of the December 23, 1983, Science paper, «Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of
Multiple Nuclear Explosions» and Sagan exposed millions of people to the threat in a Parade magazine special report and television appearances.