Comments on: Pseudonyms: The how to do…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:13:27 +0000

I'd put in big letters 'Glenda Larke' then underneath it in smaller lettering 'writing as Glenda Noramaly'

Skaldi

By: glenda larke

glenda larke — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:07:08 +0000

Skaldi:

yes. My husband has two years to run on his present job contract. I hope to start the move bit by bit sometime before the end of that.

Gio:
I would think so. The more digital the world is, the more things become the same…

Joanna:
I think I would have to put both names on any re-issue of Havenstar. I would hate to lose the following I have for the Larke name, yet I would hate someone to buy the book not knowing that they already had it, but written by someone called Noramly.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:31:34 +0000

I plan on doing my bit, one book (or e-book) at a time!

With all the discussion on names, etc, would it be published under Larke or Noramly? You'd almost have to have both names on the front wouldn't you?

By: Gio Clairval

Gio Clairval — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:11:49 +0000

Interesting post. I guess most of what you say is valid in most countries.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:41:04 +0000

Are you planning on moving back?

Skaldi

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:22:27 +0000

That is scary, Satima.

Skaldi: that's really, really interesting. When I move to Oz, I will consider going down that route.

Joanna – I have been having some trouble with wrenching the rights to Havenstar away from a publisher who had no rights whatever to it. Anyway, all sorted now. I have just sent a whole slew of secondhand copies to my agent and she is sending them out as we speak, looking for new avenues – ebooks, perhaps.

Of course, I could also say that the more books I sell of the Watergiver trilogy, the more chance I have of persuading a publisher to put Havenstar into print again….

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:08:27 +0000

If you now have the publishing rights to Havenstar is there any possibility of it being re-released?

I had some other cheeky stuff here, but figured you might hit me with your bag on Saturday so decided to be respectful.

*grin*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:29:55 +0000

"Jennifer Fallon" and "Sara Douglass" both have registered their names as a business name to get around some of the legal problems. I think JF is Jennifer Fallon PTY LTD, where as SD is Sara Douglass enterprises.

I think the reason is that in Oz you can use your name as a business name without registering it if it is your legal name, but if it's a pseudonym, and not a registered business name, then you have no legal rights to the name if someone else registers it as a business name or as a trademark and then sues you for using it.

Advice: if using a psuedonym, think about resistering it!

Skaldi.

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:18:28 +0000

The point about privacy is sobering. Google recently found me on a site called Austlit (www.austlit.edu.au) which is a respectable, semi-official site purporting to list anyone and everyone involved in Aussie literature. I was astonished to find my alias, my maiden name, my current "real" name and my year and place of birth all laid out neatly for the world to see. I have never put all these on the web it one place but it obviously didn't take much work for the Austlit volunteer to find them. I felt a tad stalked, but being reasonable, I can see that I should never have mentioned any part of my "real" name in the same place as the name I'm known by. Easy to be wise after the event, eh?