And the only way I can afford to do this is because I have a ton of self - published
titles under a pen name.
Not exact matches
Then he put up the
titles for sale
under two
pen names: Luke Ethan and Jason Godwin.
I currently have 32
titles on Kindle (most
under pen -
names)... but, the majority of my time and focus is now on helping others on their self - publishing journey.
While the reports of JK Rowling's most recent
title, A Cuckoo's Calling, made headlines for a day or so, the posts and reviews of her not - well - received book prior to that one, A Casual Vacancy, went on for weeks, leading many to speculate that it was the reason she opted to publish
under a
pen name for her latest work.
Meanwhile, Hachette
titles are going without preorder capabilities on Amazon and without being discounted by the retailer — tactics that have hurt sales for potential hits such as J.K. Rowling's The Silkworm (written
under pen name Robert Galbraith) and cut into Hachette's bottom line.
The author, who also writes
under the suspiciously similar - sounding
pen name Phoenix L. James (sound like EL James to anyone else, along with her
title, Fifteen Shards of Broken Glass?)
I have over thirty
titles out, too (
under various
pen names) and have sold over 20,000 books... but over a longer time than you have.
Traditional publishing had an unwritten rule that they would require authors to choose a
pen name if they were still
under contract but their previous
title (s) hadn't sold as well as anticipated.
It can be as as simple as «I write
under the
pen name of I. Noah Tall, which you will notice on the
title page of the proposal.»
One of the
titles affected by the feud between Amazon and Hachette is a book by J.K. Rowling
under a different
pen name.