{"id":328,"date":"2006-03-30T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T02:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=328"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:10:06","slug":"on-pseudonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/on-pseudonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"On Pseudonyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Guardian<\/em>, Jonathan Freedland, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MHFseW\">Sam Bourne<\/a>, discusses why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2006\/mar\/29\/comment.jonathanfreedland\">writers choose to publish under pen names<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Freedland&#8217;s is a special case, in some respects:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I confess it was not my idea. My agent came up with it when he sent out a proposal and a few sample chapters: he wanted publishers to react to the words on the page, rather than to any preconceptions they might have about me or the columns I write in the Guardian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he also notes an unanticipated benefit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even if the original motivation owes more to commerce than art, once chosen, a nom de plume can be liberating, taking a writer to places that might have remained unexplored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve considered, but have never quite brought myself to the point of committing to it.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? Do you write under a pseudonym? Have you ever thought about it? Why (or why not) did you decide to do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland, aka Sam Bourne, discusses why writers choose to publish under pen names. Freedland&#8217;s is a special case, in some respects: I confess it was not my idea. My agent came up with it when he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/on-pseudonyms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[893,892,891,890,894,1092,241],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-jonathan-freedland","tag-nom-de-plume","tag-pen-names","tag-pseudonyms","tag-sam-bourne","tag-the-writing-process","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5323,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/5323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}