Authors using pen names?
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Authors using pen names?
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Stephen King wrote as Richard Bachman
Dean Koontz as several different pen names (Brian Coffey, K.R. Dwyer, Deanne Dwyer, Richard Paige, Leigh Nichols, Leonard Chris)
As can be seen here most authors have a pen name when they want something published without it being linked back to them.
In some cases they dont want the work associated with them in other cases they want the work weighed on its own merits and not on their influence or acclaim
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So back in the day when my friends and I were all goofing around coming up with porn star/stripper names for ourselves, I ended up with Chesty Michenzi (pronounced Mackenzie), and that's the name I use. It's up on my website, with a link to "who is Chesty Michenzi?", which has a brief bio of this brash, sexual woman, who's not afraid to get down and dirty.
In very very very tiny font at the end, it mentions that Michenzi is the alter ego of Melissa Byrd
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Remember George Eliot? If the woman's name, instead of this pen name, appeared in the novel of a masculine theme, had it been more acceptable?
...To delineate the times that lovers miss,
...A thousand dreams can't beat a single kiss.
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I think it's useful but sometimes it can be kind of sad. For example, J.K. Rowling and Rob Thurman who both didn't use their full first name due to the fact that publishers thought their books would be less well received if it was immediately known that a woman had written it.
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While the writing style is similar, the genre is different and the pseudonym removes the preconception that the books will follow the “Harlequin Romance” style Nora Roberts originally followed.