Partly because it's possible that they will ask me for one and I want to think about whether I think it's a good idea or not. I have thought about the things you've mentioned, particularly with issues of personal interaction, keeping websites and blogs, and all that sort of thing
I pride myself -- sometimes -- on having a better grasp of professional than I showed in this (long) instance, and I would definitely caution people not to be quite as laisse faire as I was.
That said, I do think there are good reasons -- some to do with sales numbers, some with markets -- to have a pseudonym, or to use one. But keeping up two full identities would probably be prohibitively time consuming in this instant-information age, which isn't something I'd considered way back.
The sell through numbers are good, btw -- but one thing about sell-through is that it tends to climb up if the book stays in print and is stocked as backlist because in theory the stores know how much backlist stock they'll sell, and will order that much, rather than ordering frontlist quantities; you don't, therefore, get socked with the returns on backlist titles.
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Date: 2008-03-01 09:10 pm (UTC)I want to think about whether I think it's a good idea or not. I have
thought about the things you've mentioned, particularly with issues of
personal interaction, keeping websites and blogs, and all that sort of
thing
I pride myself -- sometimes -- on having a better grasp of professional than I showed in this (long) instance, and I would definitely caution people not to be quite as laisse faire as I was.
That said, I do think there are good reasons -- some to do with sales numbers, some with markets -- to have a pseudonym, or to use one. But keeping up two full identities would probably be prohibitively time consuming in this instant-information age, which isn't something I'd considered way back.
The sell through numbers are good, btw -- but one thing about sell-through is that it tends to climb up if the book stays in print and is stocked as backlist because in theory the stores know how much backlist stock they'll sell, and will order that much, rather than ordering frontlist quantities; you don't, therefore, get socked with the returns on backlist titles.