Tag Archives: Pen Names

Not so Famous Contemporary Writers

So many books have been published these days. It’s easy to miss some of the best ones around for a while because they seem to have been forgotten in the mega-favorite hype of the moment. I am the type of reader who prefers to read everything the author has written. A few years ago I […]

An Author’s Guide to Using a Pen Name

Lately there has been some backlash about pen names. Suite101 announced that all of their writers that use pen names or other pseudonyms must change their account and write under their real names. This is supposed to increase the professionalism of Suite101. Personally I think that just alienated many writers. Many, many professional writers use […]

Favorite Novelist: Amanda Quick

Amanda Quick is the pseudonym for romance novelist Jayne Castle, the author’s birth name. She also currently writes under her married name Jayne Ann Krentz. Amanda Quick is the name she adapted for her body of work classified as historical romances which is always set in England, though the time frame varies from the Medieval […]