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It's pretty easy, actually. You make a website with whoisguard enabled, you sign your writing with a fake name, and you decline interview requests. Bonus points
by A12-B 6y ago
It's pretty easy, actually. You make a website with whoisguard enabled, you sign your writing with a fake name, and you decline interview requests. Bonus points if you pretend to be a different gender, like JK Rowling did.
Often times the allure of being a pseudonymous person actually makes your work even more attractive.
- lexapro 6y agoHow do you protect your intellectual property? As soon as there is any kind of legal battle your pseudonymity will be gone.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoBanksy has managed to preserve his pseudonymity through a corporate structure.
- icelancer 6y agoKinda. Like SSC, if you want to know his identity, you can find it out with a bit of effort.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoNot really. There are two contradictory claims as to his identity, neither is confirmed, and what little evidence has been adduced can be explained in another way.
- ghaff 6y agoIf you're bestselling enough for it to matter, probably a publisher would protect their property. Being pseudonymous doesn't necessarily mean that no one knows but that just a few people know who generally won't go blabbing to the newspapers. But if authorship of something becomes a widespread puzzle to solves, e.g. Primary Colors, it does tend to get out sooner or later.
- ghaff 6y agoPresumably there's some point at which fame makes it hard to conceal an identity that many are intensely curious about. But for the vast bulk of authors, pretty much no one is going to do even casual sleuthing to try to find you out. Of course, that may limit some of your promotional opportunities but I don't know why it would be hard in general.