Archive for August, 2009

Pen Names/Pseudonyms

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Hi everyone,

Over the past few weeks I’ve been hard at work revising my latest manuscript, while revamping the www.tanyafreedman.com site. I’ve decided - with so much of your great help, my dear writing buddies and savvy websters - that I’ll create another separate website for my fiction, under a different name. It’s very exciting, but extremely time consuming. So I’m pacing myself. Here are a few blogs and links to articles that I’ve come across in my journey of discovery, regarding pen names also called pseudonyms. More in the next weeks. Feel free to forward this page to any of your friends. All the best, Tanya

http://www.likesbooks.com/273.html - A couple of my writing contacts (through Toronto Romance Writers: Claire Delacroix/Deb Cooke and Eve Silver were interviewed by AAR about pseudonyms back in 2007. I also really liked (at the end of the interview) the questions we should ask ourselves about pen names. 

Also this is from Claire Delacroix/Deb’s blog: These are a series of three posts on her blog about writing for two houses which addresses pseudonyms a bit :
http://www.delacroix.net/blog/?p=87
http://www.delacroix.net/blog/?p=86
http://www.delacroix.net/blog/?p=85

And another interesting link to an article I found helpful from many aspects - regarding the pros and cons of pseudonyms: A Rose By Any Other Name:

http://www.mbbp.com/resources/iptech/pseudonyms.html