One of the other reasons that I have heard of for using a pseudonym is to remind your editors how good you really are - that it's not your name selling the book, it's actually your talent. So your editors in this case are protecting you from dumb book store buyers? Theoretically, they should be not doing that, but. Because if you keep your name and your trying to write into different genres, let's say that you're selling 50,000 books in science fiction and you're selling 100,000 books in fantasy, and you start switching off - what happens is the next time that you write a fantasy novel, the bookstores are going to order the same number of science fiction books that you sold before and you just cut your sales in half in your fantasy, so you don't want to do that. Banks when he's writing sci-fi, or maybe it's the other way around, I'm not sure, but at least he's kept his name. well, Iain Banks does it, but he's Iain Banks when he's writing novels and he's Iain M. You see a lot of authors jumping names to do things like that. At least in writing we can change names. My daughter gets upset because as an actress she's always cast as the brat, the snotty superior sorority girl, or something like that. If you are an actor, and you play villains, then you play villains, you're not going to be the romantic hero. That's a horrible thing that your editors have done to you. We will not accept any science fiction from you whatsoever." So I guess my first thing is pick your rut. He went to my editors, they said, "You're a fantasy author. Last year, I asked my agent if I could do a science fiction novel.
I started writing fantasy after 10 years as a birthday present to myself.
You're a best-selling science fiction author, most people take 20 years to get where you got with your first book." So they didn't let me write fantasy. And my publisher then said, "What do you want to write next?" And I said, "I want to write a big fantasy." And she said, "Well, you're a science fiction author, you can't write fantasy. what I wrote my first book, I wrote a book called On My Way to Paradise, which was a cyberpunk Latin American kind of novel. Top publishing advice: first, write what you love. Writers wanting to break in - what is your top publishing advice in just the short period of time, in a couple of minutes.
First question for Dave from me - publishing advice for new authors. We will probably chime in because we are insatiable blabbermouths and we can't stop talking, but mostly we hope that we'll be able to make. And because we're not that smart, this episode we're going to ask questions of Dave and let him do most of the talking. Start with setting, because characters grow out of it, then let your plot grow out of your characters. Name your characters to resonate with the genre. Writing Excuses Season Two Episode 11: Ah.
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