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All I want for Christmas

Posted by Michele on 20 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Publishing

Categories: Publishing | 1 Comment

A Christmas Pudding

Since the day is almost upon us, let me wish you all the very best of the season.

All I want for Christmas ~~~ is a new name!
I always thought I would write under my own name and have done so since 2006. Imagine my surprise when my new publisher asked me to find a new name because they had too many authors with my first name.

The request opened up a couple of  possibilities and a couple of concerns.

The pros:-I could keep my last name
My last name being near the end of the alphabet means my books are always on the bottom shelf in the corner. Always. So I could pick a last name that came in the middle of the alphabet, at eye level, which sounded like a pro to me.
The cons:- People who were reading my current books wouldn’t be able to find me.

I would lose my author brand.
Who would I be?
In the end I decided to go with a completely new name, and a new website, but I would still keep writing under my own name, for oThe Rake's Inherited Courtesanther publishers, but to deal with the reader issue,  I would have my new persona contribute to blog with my old persona and we would be bff’s.

So here I am, meet the new my new best friend forever.   Ta daaa.

Ann Lethbridge, writing for Harlequin Historicals. My first book comes out with them as a short story in the Undone line, cover shown here. It is called The Rake’s Intimate Encounter. It will be available in January from e-harlequin.com. I love the cover and I must say I am very excited to be writing for Harlequin. This novella  is a prequel to my full length book ~The Rake’s Inherited Courtesan which is out in April 2009.

Next time I will tell you how I set about choosing the perfect new name.   Or at least, perfect in my humble opinion.



One Comment

  1. Writer

    Not an expert or anything but I’m sure you can set up meta tags in your website’s code to link you to any searches for your new pen name. As well as pages etc. You should also put a note on each website and link to the other.



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