Publishing Your Book, part 3 - Pen Names, Author Names, and Pseudonyms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I talk about some basic guidelines for choosing your author name for your book (and yes, there is more to it than "your name").
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David, if you ever decide to write romance, you pretty much have to use the pen name V. D. Stewart.
Oh boy yeah
David Stewart is the most common name in America or second most? That’s neat. You’re the the person who come up when I search it on TH-cam, congrats on being the most famous David Stewart.
Good advice! I've decided to stick to my own name when I publish since I plan on sticking mainly to fantasy/sci-fi and "Tom Laspisa" seems distinct and memorable enough and, to me, fits fantasy pretty well. Plus I just like the idea of being myself.
Thomas Laspia has a better ring to it. But do what you want my guy.
I like the old books by Andre (Alice) Norton. Many assumed it was a male writer.
I’m glad you made this video, I’ve debated whether I should use a pen name. I’m kinda shy so for a while a pen name sounded appealing. These are good tips though, and I’ll definitely keep them in mind.
Love this Dave all info is useful for hopeful creators!
My whole life people have been misspelling my name, even after I spell it out for them. A pen name would probably be a good idea :-)
what's your romance book pen name ? ;)
Sandra Hard? IDK
@@DVSPress I think alliteration would be better. Sandra Soft.
So based on this video I should shorten my current "Ian Anthony Hollis" to "Ian A. Hollis"
What about children’s short stories? Is it an even split or should I do my own research. Just barely browsing I know a bunch of women write kids books but those are mainly very short picture books. I’m mainly interested in hans Christian Anderson type stories and Beatrix Potter type tales(I know they’re technically picture books but they are fairly long at 50 pages and are closer to what I want.) and maybe Mary Pope Osborne but shorter. Any tips?
What's your advice for creating a book title?
Look at the books that are similar to yours in your genre, and see what keywords they use. That's a good place to start. Fantasy titles are a bit more open.
So scifi space opera would be something with words like "star(s)" "galaxy/galactic" "war" - basically anything like that,
@@DVSPress Thank you very much, it's been killing me to think of one, I'll be sure to read up on some.
What are your thoughts on using my current pseudonym Codey Pendent. Its rather uni sexual but does have inherent negative connotations as being codependent is typically viewed as a pejorative. The reason I prefer it is my legal last name Berridge doesn't sound appealing. Im torn between C W Berridge and Codey Pendent. Vote?
I wouldn't use a silly name unless I was writing something silly
@@DVSPress so it's silly lol. Cheers dude. The honesty helps
Would it look out of place to write Codey W B? Can't think of any examples where first name is used but the last name is initialized
8:28. Is it Michael moorcock? I’m currently reading Elric, finished the first and am on “fortress of the pearl.” Did I get it right? Do I get a prize?
What if I initialize the first name but spell out the middle and last?
Haha or is that a little outside the box?
Would it just be easier to write it at as middle name first name initial then last name.
I feel like both of those are outside the box thoughts. 🤷🏽♂️
L Ron Hubbard
@@DVSPress OOOh brilliant! Thank you. I couldn't think of a known example.
4:33. It’s weird, nowadays it is female and it has mostly female authors. The only genre I think is pretty gender equal(though perhaps leaning female.) are those animal fantasy books, like warriors and gaursians of gahoole and redwall. I personally read the guardians of gahoole, cause of the movie, but the most popular in school was warriors. Warriors is written by a team of writers named “Erin Hunter” who are mostly female. Guardians of gahoole is written by Kathleen lasky, who uses her real name. Redwall isn’t currently popular but it was and it has the most following to it, almost to the level of classic. Redwall was Brian jacques(prounounced Jakes.) And was the real name of the actual man who wrote it. I saw in videos of him he used to joke about how people mispronounced his name. That’s a pretty interesting look at how different the names of a successful genre can be, while gaining a big following. Sorry for the essay.