How about pseudonyms?
- lovemesomejava
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How about pseudonyms?
Does it bother you when you find out an author isn't using his or her real name?
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but if an author who's known for his ridiculous writing skills publishes his work under some other name, we won't be getting any warning beforehand of what we'll be enduring!
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I have published paperbacks and e-books under my own name, but I also sometime wanted to appeal more to female readers than male readers, so I published some e-books on Smashwords as 'Mickey' not 'Mike', (thinking that 'Mickey' could possibly be seen as a female author, and that's an impression I wanted to give).
Is this dishonest? Or is it simply trying to be helpful to the reader - see the name, get some idea of what the book might be about. ('Mickey' writes Romantic Fiction. Isn't that obvious??)
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But, I do think that there needs to some reason for using a pseudonyms. Or more accurately I think when you discover that an author has used a pseudonym that you should be asking yourself why they have chosen not to use their legal name. Is it done out of fear? Does the author have some ulterior motive in using another name?
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Apart from that I've always kind of liked the use of pseudonyms, it adds a bit of mystery - but as with anything it can be used poorly. So it really depends on the reasons behind it, the motive.
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They worked out the name that J.K.Rowling was using for her new crime novel.
So, let them guess: what is the pseudonym I'm using for my new series of crime novels on Amazon Kindle?
(I'm wondering how long this will take.)
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I suppose that's one way to look at it, but here's another: I don't really like mystery novels. I have attempted several in the past and didn't enjoy them. If at some point I were to read a summary of The Cuckoo's Calling without knowing who the author REALLY is, I wouldn't bother to read it because of the genre. On the other hand, once I found out that JK Rowling had written it, I was interested. Not because I'm interested in reading something by a celebrity, but because I've read Rowling before and know that I love her writing, so the fact that it's written by one of my favorite authors is likely to outweigh the fact that it's in a genre I don't generally enjoy.MikeScantlebury wrote:I'm afraid I'm not impressed by these people you describe as J.K.Rowling's 'readership' - if they are so shallow that they WILL buy the book if they know it's by her, but NOT when they thought it wasn't, then they can't possibly claim to be discriminating readers - they're just swayed by the current cult of celebrity.
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It can be surprising to discover that an author you have been familiar with in a particular genre and you then discover them writing under a pseudonym in a totally different genre but all I'd really feel is admiration for someoen who can be equally successful in different genres.
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