Kingdom of Knuffel

It depends on what you want, if you choose to stay away from the public eye, it generally closes some doors in the marketing for your book. It's hard to give interviews hiding your face, it would only leave you with the radio and maybe interviews through e-mails. Also contact with readers would have to be quite scarce. But yeah, to each their own.
On the other hand, I always thought artists don't really have to show their faces, they just sell their art through the internet but I also thought that about writers until I found out otherwise

I use a pseudonym for some of my work. It was fine until the point that I also started publishing under my own name, because basically I don't have the time or mental power to run two marketing campaigns and two sets of full social media profiles with regular updates, so my pen name kind of stopped being promoted and therefore also stopped selling

There are tons of authors out there who are just stock photos of models though haha. Almost all of my ghostwritten work, when I go back and find it on Amazon or wherever, the 'author' has a photo and a biography and a whole backstory. And it's hilarious because either it's just me, or it's me and a whole bunch of other writers. There's one I wrote for who publishes like ten books a month, which to be honest is a bit of a giveaway.

Ooh, that's interesting! Are you self publishing all of your writing? And what made you use your own name after using a pseudonym?

Wow, yeah, 10 books a month is a total giveaway XD I wonder what's going through that person's head :D

I wish I could create an android me to take my place in social situations.
Naturally, she wouldn't look like me, but she would have my personality and be able to speak better than me.

I have the overwhelming feeling to run away and hide when people pay too much attention to me.
Especially when it comes to complimenting me.

I was in choir most of my childhood and I was on a lot of stages, but that was my least favorite thing.
One day, the choir teacher singled me out and kept telling me to smile and harassing me in front of the other kids and she made me want to cry.
But everyone else kept laughing and telling me to smile and the teacher offered to buy me lunch all week if I smiled and it was just fucking traumatic >___>
It wasn't funny or cute or silly - it was fucking horrific.
And the fact no one could tell it was hurting me just shows me people don't understand anything >Bu

I feel so much for you right now

I'd love to have an android who would tke on social situations for me, haha

But compliments are nice, learning to appreciate them is a good thing to do. I know it seems unnatural as I'm still working on it myself but it really helps you see yourself from a slightly different perspective, the more positive side ;)

I guess it's because people can't read minds and on top of that they aren't very sensitive about other people's feelings. And some, even if they knew how it made you feel, would probably harass you even more. Some people are just cruel...

Yeah, people are dicks!

@mem: I am now. I had a 3-book publishing deal with my pseudonym but I hated it. I would only go for another one if I could land either a really big house, one of the big 5, or a super cool indie one that I really respected and saw them doing good things. Otherwise I'm good with self. All the control, all the royalties, much less stress.
I only used a pseudonym because of the content. Under that name I do erotica, LGBTQ romance, slushy kind of stuff that sells but isn't really my style that I want to be associated with. I kind of wouldn't want my family members to read that and know I wrote it, you know? And I wouldn't want people to know me by that. But I'm very happy to be known for my crime stuff and for people I know to read that, because it's what I really love.
I want to get some YA published and I would probably do that under a pseudonym too. Likely just something like my married name, not to conceal my identity but to separate the two types of writing so that crime readers aren't totally confused if they pick up one of my other books and it's suddenly YA.

Oh! I hope it's okay to say this, but I take questions on GoodReads, so if anyone wants to ask anything about writing or my books in particular it would be cool to get questions there. I get to share them on Twitter and such then and they stay on my author page :D

As for that author with ten books a month, they are thinking about profit XD People will go ahead and buy loads of them. It doesn't really matter that it's obviously fake, I guess. If you buy book one and love it, and then there are 300 more books, then they are making a lot of money.

Yeah, I'd probably use a pseudonym too if I wanted to write erotica

It would be uncomfortable to do otherwise.
I've heard about slightly changing your name to distinguish from other genres, like for example M.A. Gibson (just made it up lol) for crime but Melanie A. Gibson for romance etc. Seems like a natural thing to do in that case.

I'd have so many questions I'd probably choke on them and never ask them xD

People are stupid xD

There's this author, Nora Roberts who also uses JD Robb to write other stuff to her romance stuff

Exactly! Anne Rice did erotica under the name A. N. Roquelaire. Although it's known now that it was her so I don't know how successful it was in that case, I suppose it's possible that she was proud of the erotica and wanted people to know haha. And then there's JK Rowling who published her non-HP books under a different name, I forget what it is, but I think I read she was doing an experiment to see if she could sell just as well without people knowing who she was. (Robert Gilbraith, I just remembered haha)

memoriam: I want that android so much. I even designed her 8,u

Oh, I always say thank you, but then I will leave.
Though I guess my lack of enthusiasm could be perceived as being snobby and like I don't care.
I know my dad told me I should be more talkative so people don't think I'm snobby.
I brought that up recently and he said "Well, if they just assume that then fuck them 8u"

It's funny because my therapist pointed out that my lack of facial expressions is because I don't want people to be able to read me. But I hate when I can't read people. xD

A handful of people have seen what happens when they push me too much xD
Most people have never seen it 8u

And it's like how people donate to people on Patreon and like their names listed in videos and such.
Please don't post my name. Take my money and no one has to ever know who I am or that I did something xD

jacobgrey: Having published books is amazing 8,u
I don't know if you guys have seen the cartoon Series "Arthur" but there's an episode about writing and using fake names. It was pretty interesting xD

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