Questions 12: What About Pen Names? - The Every Day Novelist

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Melissa asks:
Should I use a different pen names for different genres?

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After a childhood in academia, J. Daniel Sawyer declared his independence by dropping out of high school and setting off on a series of adventures in the bowels of the film industry, the venture capital culture of silicon valley, surfing safaris, bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, adventurers, climbers, drug dealers, gangbangers, and inventors before his past finally caught up to him. Trapped in a world bookended by one wall falling in Berlin and other walls going up around suburbia and along national borders throughout the world, he rediscovered his deep love of history and, with it, and obsession with predicting the future as it grew aggressively out of the past. To date, this obsession has yielded over thirty books and innumerable short stories, the occasional short film, nearly a dozen podcasts stretching over a decade and a half, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the world through the lens of his own peculiar madness, in the depths of his own private forest in a rural exile, where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a production company that brings innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world. For news and free stories, sign up for his occasional newsletter. Or find his contact info, podcasts, and more on his home page at http://www.jdsawyer.net

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Interesting, thank you! I use a pen name, but because there is more than one contributor. With my head injury, my work is gibberish without the help of my wife and my mother in translating my insanity back to English.

jrhandleyblog

January 26, 2016 at 11:03 am 9 years ago

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1. Most welcome–glad it was helpful 🙂
  
  jdsawyer
  
  January 26, 2016 at 11:09 am 9 years ago
  
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  1. It was most definitely helpful and I’m make another list for you of questions! 🙂 You’ll never run out of material at this rate!!!
    
    jrhandleyblog
    
    January 27, 2016 at 1:44 am 9 years ago
    
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Great to see you back. 😀

Rob Cornell

January 26, 2016 at 12:26 pm 9 years ago

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