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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Well, it isn't such a blatant and obvious ploy that makes me wonder if I'm being played for a chump. When you encounter a new author, and you see "Ellis Peters" or even "George Elliot", I would assume most people accept some guy named "Ellis" or "George" wrote the thing. Maybe it's the useless transparency of this "marketing ploy" that I object to the most.
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Some of it is a carry over from times when it was considered less than respectable for a woman to be an author.
Me I don't care about an authors gender or race or age etc. , I either like it or I don't. Same as I don't care about who made products or rendered other service based on those issues, and if they want to use initials, or a psuedonym, well why not, for whatever reason. Many men write romances under female names, and many authors have different names for different genres, with no desire to trick the consumer.
I even know people who go by there initials instead of given name, and it has always been a fairly common practice in the business world, J. P. Morgan comes to mind.
Helen