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kleinbl00 · 3554 days ago · link · · parent · post: If you wrote a book, would you adopt a nom de plume?
It builds a wall between you and your fans. Nowadays there's no marketing budget whatsoever so you need to be the one with the livejournal, the book page, the tour, the radio station call-ins, etc and if you aren't "you" the whole affair comes off as forced and fake and nobody wants to hear from you. Whatever reason you have for writing under a pseudonym, your fans will assume it's because you're a furry with a sexual attraction to tupperware and an arrest record a mile long for sexual assault on farm animals.