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Joined: 4/26/2011
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At least one really famous author Samuel Clemens used a pen name very successfully, and is known for it as Mark Twain.
Annabelle
www.ridiculouslife.net
Is it better to use a pen name as an author, verses using your actual name?
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This is a great question and one I've considered. Here's a link to some pro's and con's. Although, in the end, it's really up to you.
http://www.mbbp.com/resources/iptech/pseudonyms.html
Hope I didn't make your decision harder.
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Joined: 8/21/2011
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When I was in college back during the Jurassic, one of my geology professors told me that I should consider changing/shortening my name because "no one will take anyone with an ethnic-sounding name seriously."
Needless to say, his "advice" rubbed me the wrong way and I resolved back then to always be proud of my name. So, would I use a pen name? No.
By the way, an art history professor at the same college, used to say how much he loved Italian names. He thought they were lyrical. 
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Joined: 10/20/2011
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I considered a pen name. Now it's a bit too tied to my internet identity on other sites.
Angela, I had a bit of the opposite experience in college. I was a theater minor and in every class I took for it, every professor would comment how my name is the perfect stage name. So I realized that if it's the perfect stage name, it'd be good as a pen name if it weren't my real name.
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