They also often
needed pen names because they wrote «too fast» for traditional publishing.
Your eventual publisher will help you decide whether
you need a pen name, and what it should be.
If you wrote in multiple genres at the same time,
you needed a pen name.
You will
need a pen name if you decide to stay solely in traditional publishing.
And you probably won't
need a pen name if you're an indie writer.
Indie writers don't
need pen names.
You need a pen name if you have a profession that requires a degree of confidentiality or you really, really want privacy.
Not exact matches
But I
need the author profile first and I can't see how to set up a
pen name profile without having a book first, so I'm stuck in a loop!
If you write under more than three
pen names, then you'll
need to open another author central account.
As an author you can write under your own
name or a
pen name, there is no
need or requirement to incorporate or even have a DBA.
Whether it's the birth
name or a
pen name, there
needs to be a readership with nonfiction,» remarks Dawn Frederick, literary agent and owner of Red Sofa Literary.
You'll
need to provide your
pen name (if you use one) as well as your legal
name or your business
name (if you actually got a small business license).
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.
If it is the same as your «
pen name» we
need you to type it again please.
Now, with the growing influence of indie publishing on the industry, the
need for
pen names isn't as great as it used to be.
This will appear in your post title, if you use a
pen name this
needs to be the author
name on the book.
If you
need help on selecting a good
pen name or giving a title that really sells, check out this article.
It doesn't matter if you are writing using your own
name or a
pen name; you simply
need to own your online identity.
The
pen name format I
need to use is 2 English words followed by 8 numbers in format: dd - mm - yyyy.
If you'll be writing up a storm and
need more than 3
pen names, there is a simple way around the 3
name limitation on your Amazon author account.
Use these simple steps to set up your Amazon Author Pages and
pen names and you'll have all of the flexibility and anonymity you
need to self - publish with confidence.
If I were just getting started in the publishing business and I was going indie, I wouldn't use a
pen name at all — unless I personally felt I
needed one.
Heck, it doesn't even
need to be true: plenty of authors write under a
pen name with a
«But I won't be putting my
pen names out here, because the last thing I
need is the sycophant squad going after my catalog.
Every draft send gets one shot, and the reader goes as far as (s) he possibly can; if it's good, it's talked about — and if you
need a better
name for the author, be it famous or just a classy - sounding
pen -
name, that's the easiest thing to arrange; famous people are always delighted to sign and promote a good book, especially if someone else took the pain to write it — shadow writer is not an insult here: people are open and proud about it, see «Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités...».
Towson, MD About Blog My
name is Nick and I founded Fountain Pen Central because I recognize there is a
need for high quality fountain
pens that won't break the bank.
He writes under the
pen name W.C. — meaning «With Christ» — telling the stories of people he's helped and inviting those who
need assistance to contact him.
ATA, I don't know who you think you're going to impress by suggesting anyone should look for «verbal» verification of anything important, but in the interests of not pretending to be someone you're not, I feel you
need to come up with a new
pen name — because, quite frankly your current one is more than a little bit pretentious!