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Whistlingwoman
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Username: Whistlingwoman
Post Number: 34
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:33 pm: | 
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I just read about a couple mystery writers who use pen names (several) to write different series, and I know other authors do this as well.
Any ideas why this is done?
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 436
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:57 pm: |
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Some use them for the traditional reasons that they are trying to keep their writing lives and their regular lives separate--
Others are urged to do it so they won't saturate the market, or because they are writing in a different style or with a different type of character and they don't want to confuse the public. |
Whistlingwoman
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Username: Whistlingwoman
Post Number: 35
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 05:10 pm: |
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Chris,
Very good points. Thank you.
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Philly_bbw
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Username: Philly_bbw
Post Number: 6
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 03:00 pm: |
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A lot of authors use a pen name as a means of getting another book out when the first book deal goes wrong and are trapped in the contract. sad but true... |
Rashena
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Username: Rashena
Post Number: 55
Registered: 08-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 04:17 am: |
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Wow, I never knew that! But what happens when the other publisher finds out? Say Yolanda Joe is trapped in a contract but writes a mystery under the name Adella Garland (though I am just using her as an example) - can she be sued? |
Philly_bbw
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Username: Philly_bbw
Post Number: 10
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 06:02 pm: |
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NO, because depending on the contract you can not put out another book under the same name if you didn't give them first dibs on it. If you signed a 1 book deal(meaning the book they are publishing at the moment)the contract will say that they get to review the next book for 30 days before you can send it to another publisher. After that you would have to get a better deal than what they are offering you, and you have to give them a chance to counter offer before you can sign with someone else. This could take forever. So rather than go through all of that a lot of us chose to write under another name so that we can still put books out with out going through the hassel. The publisher said, for example, that Yolanda Joe can not publish another book under her name under those terms unless she goes through the proceders. The publisher didn't say that she couldn't write under a different name, and legalley they can't so it works out. |
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