Are any of you, like me, trying to decide what penname
you will be using after you become famous and want to write as someone else?
Just kidding, but I find pennames to be an interesting study. Why do people use
them, to remain anonymous I suppose, but why? Seems I know more writers that
would like to be famous than those who would like to remain unknown.
Mark Twain might be the most famous of all, but many
other writers, some quite famous, have written with names other than their own.
Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Benjamin Franklin, Nora Roberts, J. K Rowling, And
Charles Dickens among hundreds of others wrote at times with pennames. Some,
which no one would ever suspect to have used pen names, like Agatha Christie
and Emily Bronte also used pseudonyms when it suited them.
A few years ago I was flabbergasted to learn that two of
my favorite western series writers, Dana Fuller Ross and Donald Clayton Porter
were one in the same – Noel Bertram Gerson. I guess this falls under the
heading of, you learn something every day.
Now I am beginning to think many of you that I follow are
likely famous and using aliases on line so that I will not find out.
Or - probably not!
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| Saw this little guy last evening just before dark |
2 comments:
Neil, don't hold your breath for me to use a pan name. Is it a tax dodge (chuckle) or a way to sell more books?
You may be on to something Oscar, might be a tax dodge.
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