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Originally Posted by nomesque
I'm a reader who follows an author, not necessarily a genre, so I get pretty irritated when authors do that. Hence, I don't and won't do it. Plus, I don't like people assuming I'm dumb, and I'd like to extend the same courtesy to my readers. They can just be bloody well confused, if they can't read the description and tags well enough to pick the genre of the book.
Then again, people offended by genre-switching will probably get too offended to read more than one of my books anyhow.  |
I totally agree with all of the above! Even if, for practical reasons others have explained, a writer feels the need to use different names for different books, I appreciate it if he/she at least doesn't hide behind the names, but makes it known that they are the same person. It feels more honest to me. For example Iain Banks vs Iain M. Banks is perfectly fine. But I always feel, as a reader, a little bit cheated when I find out that two writers I thought were different persons actually weren't. And I certainly don't want to be reminded of all the marketing planning that goes on. I'd like to think of fiction as something more pure than a mere "product".
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'm doing it now as part of a meta-fiction narrative experiment called 'The Domino Effect'. One novel under my own name focusing on a fictional writer, whose work will be released before the novel, which will then be the study of a fictional academic whose writing a fictional non-fiction book about the characters that appear in my fictional writer's book (which in itself will be a fiction)  |
I love the idea! I feel so frustrated that I can't actually read some real PP Penrose, or Kilgore Trout!
(though I think I'd hate it if I didn't know for sure if the author was fictional or real - hmm)