Featured Article: Guide to Pseudonyms & Pen Names
Here's everything you ever wanted to know about pseudonyms—including how to choose one, the legal ramifications, and famous author pen names. For centuries, writers have been using alternate names, also known as pen names, noms de plume, or pseudonyms. There are several reasons why writers choose to use pseudonyms, and a lot of other things to learn about them. In this post, we’re rounded up everything you need to know about pseudonyms to satisfy your curiosity and help you decide if you want to publish your writing under a pen name.
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OVERWHELMINGLY FINE
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The Untouchable
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Gorgeous!
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Ancient Light
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Snow
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The Sea
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The Lock-Up
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Time Pieces
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Eclipse
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The Infinities
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family. even the gods seem to know about it.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft....
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Masterful
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The Blue Guitar
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- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
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- Release date: 09-18-15
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The Infinities
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Tetralogía científica [Scientific Tetralogy]
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- By: John Banville, Ángela Pérez Gómez - translator
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En una época de mentes cerradas en la que reinaban el caos y una concepción errónea del universo aceptada desde hacía siglos, unos pocos hombres se atrevieron a cuestionar esa visión, decididos a descubrir y revelar cómo funcionaba el mundo....
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Tetralogía científica [Scientific Tetralogy]
- Copérnico · Kepler · La carta de Newton · Mefisto [Copernicus · Kepler · The Newton Letter · Mephisto]
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona, Esteban Massana
- Length: 25 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-03-22
- Language: Spanish
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Mrs Osmond
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Isabel Osmond, a spirited, intelligent young heiress, flees to London after being betrayed by her husband....
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Mrs Osmond
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- Release date: 10-05-17
- Language: English
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The Blue Guitar
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Oliver Orme is a painter who has abandoned his art. His days are now haunted by loss: loss of desire, of artistic vision, of the people he has loved....
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The Blue Guitar
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Marlowe
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The streets of Bay City, California, in the early 1950s are as mean as they get. Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and the private eye business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover....
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Marlowe
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