I'm not sure how I feel about having lots
of different pen names though.
Not exact matches
Right now I've written twenty - six novels and a bunch
of novellas and short stories under four
different pen names.
Jayne Ann Krentz is a prime example
of an author who uses
pen names for
different genres.
Some newbie writers don't yet get the «pick a
different pen name» paradigm, which is something many authors end up doing for all sorts
of reasons.
This is someone who has
penned enduring bestsellers that have defined an entire generation
of young readers, and she couldn't even rack up a few thousand readers when using a
different name.
So, last night, I suddenly had the thought that maybe I should have used a completely
different pen name (instead
of just dropping the M. and using Louisa Locke).
If you look at a number
of trad published authors they had
pen names for their
different genres and now they are moving away from that.
Changing your
pen name at a later stage
of your career, especially if it means to republish your books under a
different author
name is painful.
Pepper Harding is the
pen name of a San Francisco writer known for an entirely
different kind
of literature.
I tried another series
of books, under a
different pen name.
The House
of Stairs, Barbara Vine (1989) Barbara Vine was more than just Ruth Rendell's
pen name; she was almost an alter ego, created to write a
different type
of novel.
James Patterson wrote 56
different books which were best - sellers (according to Wikipedia), and Nora Roberts has written over 200 romance novels (including a series
of 40 books written under her
pen name, J.D. Robb).
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.
He goes by a number
of different aliases, including Celina Marka (acquisitions editor for ParaDon), Judd Miller (ParaDon's webmaster), and Artis Reed (which appears to be a
pen name of Abayome's).
If you set up your Profile in the
name of your business or book, you risk having your account cancelled, but it is possible to set up a separate Profile in your
pen name as long as you use a
different email address.
When not writing for other writers, Vilhelmina's writing features three
different fiction
pen names — the first
of which will launch during 2017.
A lot
of us are taking back our
pen names, by putting on the cover and in description something like «Sarah A. Hoyt writing as Sarah D'Almeida» Agatha Christie books in the US often have completely
different names than in the UK and publishers on line who know you might read both will say stuff like «And Then There Was None» originally published as «Ten Little Indians.»
You could adopt a
pen name for
different kinds
of books, but then it's really hard to market multiple
names.
This is a huge amount
of books available from thousands
of different authors or «
pen names».
My opinion is that if you're going to write in
different genres, you should use a
pen name for reasons
of clarity with your readers —
different genre,
different name.
I sometimes wonder whether she might not have written something else later on, in a totally
different genre, and whether this movement might force an adoption
of a
different pen -
name.
One
of the titles affected by the feud between Amazon and Hachette is a book by J.K. Rowling under a
different pen name.
George Eliot, George Sand, the Brontës took men's
pen -
names — but women's state
of mind now is completely
different.
Nadia Herzog is a
pen name of Nadja Bozovic, a freelance journalist whose interest goes from the questioning influence
of different art movements, through the connection
of arts and urban space, to the art activism for social change.