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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Now unless that stigma of "book dumping" is no longer applicable, and releasing more than one book every six months in the same genre (sci-fi in my case) is alright....
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Ah, but the stigma is still there, to some degree. And if you are writing short stories, for submission to the genre magazines, most of them don't even want to see more than one submission from you at any given time.
If you happen to be prolific enough to churn out good material, and
if you are submitting to the top-tier genre magazines, and
if you don't mind having some of your stories associated with a different pen name (bearing in mind that copyright for pseudonymous works is a little different than for works under your own name), and
if you can keep straight which stories go with which name, and
if you can remember how to sign your alter-ego's name convincingly should the need arise... well, then you might as well experiment with it. Doing so hypothetically doubles your potential frequency of publication,
if you can produce enough good material to warrant the ruse.
- M.