Should you write what you love, or what you think the world wants?

[Ell]

I'd say "Damn! I accidentally made more money again!" Then I'd try another assumed name. Something that people will never guess is a pseudonym. Like Richard Bachman.

Hey! I was going to use that one.

Ever notice women authors always use male pen names? Not so much the other way around.

 

[Meadow337]

or Trevanian to throw out a more obscure one

 

[direstraits]

Hey! I was going to use that one.

Ever notice women authors always use male pen names? Not so much the other way around.

Yes, that does seem true. Can we think of anyone who's a guy but uses a female pseudonym?

 

[Meadow337]

Carolyn Keene author of Nancy Drew but that might not be an entirely accurate one because 'Carolyn Keene' was a collective syndicate of writers some of whom were men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Keene

 

[Dmitri Dmitriev]

Yes, that does seem true. Can we think of anyone who's a guy but uses a female pseudonym?

There's Peter O'Donnell who wrote as Madeleine Brent and Christopher Wood as Rosie Dixon... obviously I stole these answers from Google, but there are plenty of men who write under female pseudonyms.

 

[direstraits]

Collection of authors eh. That reminds me of Ellery Queen... I have to say I was shocked to discover that really wasn't an Ellery Queen at all...

 

[Meadow337]

This may shock but I don't recall reading any of 'his' books

 

[direstraits]

This may shock but I don't recall reading any of 'his' books

Given your prolific reading, you may have read everything else by the authors masquerading as Ellery Queen, so technically you have read Ellery Queen!

 

[Meadow337]

Probably lol I have certainly read many of the other masters of crime, but I looked 'him' up and Ellory Queen is two cousins from New York.

 

[direstraits]

I'm not googling now, but I thought I remembered that over the years there were many other authors who were commissioned to write under that name, not just the two of them.

(Yes, I'm too lazy to google, even as I type this on an Internet forum)

 

[Meadow337]

Possibly as I'm also too lazy to google so there

 

[gerard quain]

I'd say "Damn! I accidentally made more money again!" Then I'd try another assumed name. Something that people will never guess is a pseudonym. Like Richard Bachman.


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