Comments on: Pen Names

By: Elen

Elen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:43:13 +0000

is it necessary to legalize a pen name? if publishing a book do you do a DBA, what about bank accounts, and so forth?

By: Shar Daniel

Shar Daniel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:24:34 +0000

I use a pen name to seperate my admirers from reality. I have been stalked and it is not a good feeling. I write because it is my passion.

By: Stephen Thorn

Stephen Thorn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47:23 +0000

I use a pen name for my fictional stories because my birth name is terribly common and dull as dishwater. With a pen name I can evoke a certain image to my readers (if you doubt it, consider that the birth name of movie cowboy/tough guy John Wayne was really Marion Michael Morrison — not exactly an appropriate monniker for a hard-punching, gun-slinging, kind of guy) that fits the story they’re about to dive into. For my non-fiction, my birth name is fine.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:01:06 +0000

Thanks for the feedback….

By: Kathie M. Thomas

Kathie M. Thomas — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:19:28 +0000

Fair enough Lizzie. I do have one blog I write under another name because it reveals things that were done to members of my family. I don’t want to release their names or have people pointing at them so I’m protecting their identity but need to publicise things that happen which need laws reformed or something changed. So I can appreciate where you might be coming from. I would hope that I’m only 1/2 way through my life but then that would mean I’d live to over 100 so perhaps I’m being hopeful