Sentences with phrase «use a pen name when»

I've used pen names when my wife and I wrote together.

Not exact matches

Using the classic pen and paper game of Dots / Squares / Fences (or any other name it may go by), children play the game and when they have secured a square they calculate the value of the square.

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.

That's something authors used to do in the old days when publishers only allowed an author one book a year, so they had to use pen names if they wanted to write more.

You might suspect that Booker Prize - winning writer John Banville used a bit of author's alchemy when he wrote a series of acclaimed, atmospheric crime novels set in 1950s Dublin, using the pen name Benjamin Black.

A lesser known use is Romance writer Nora Roberts who uses the pen name J.D. Robb when writing suspense novels.

Good point about some people having relatively more common names who might benefit from using pen names, when it comes to searching them through Google.

This reality did lead me to consider using initials when choosing a pen name.

As a writer, I use a pen name for my work because you NEVER know when a crazy person will key on something you write, or take something personally.

When Denise made the decision to do something she always loved... she started to write her first book, The Celtic Curse: Banshee, using her pen name D.J. Doyle.

One of the major reasons for using pen names is when an author publishes books in other niches that he / she is not known for.

You are free to switch back and forth at any time depending on how and when you want to use a particular pen name.

However, before we dive into the meat of the matter, let's go over why and when you would want to use a pen name, how using one affects your publishing accounts, how to approach social media and other important considerations for using a pen name.

Now, she uses only three names: Jayne Ann Krentz when writing contemporary romantic - suspense; Amanda Quick for historical romance - suspense; and Jayne Castle when penning paranormal romance - suspense.

When considering using a pen name, it's important to consider your author brand over the long term.

If you plan to use a pen name, be sure when you sign for your Smashwords account that you choose a «screen name» that matches your pen name, because the screen name becomes part of your permanent web address for your author page.

When female authors write under male pen names (or just use their gender ambiguous initials); when you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whWhen female authors write under male pen names (or just use their gender ambiguous initials); when you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whwhen you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whwhen you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whwhen you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whole.

My close college friends and I named ourselves feminists, cursed loudly in public, flirted with insults instead of hair flips, gave one another dead roses for Valentine's Day, and even penned a poster for our apartment that read «The Hairy - Leg Café» to play with the negative stereotypes of feminists we knew some of our peers held.2 For me, using the F - word as a proud marker of my belief in equality means that I hear subtle and not so subtle put - downs when I'm critical of sexual double standards, traditional heterosexual marriage, differences in pay and prestige, and who cleans the bathroom.