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	<title>Comments on: How to write a really good author bio, part VI:  a picture is allegedly worth a thousand words, but in a bio, you seldom get to use that many</title>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, thanks for catching the numbering gaffe, Doug.  I tend to post these either in the middle or the end of a rather long workday, so sometimes my bleary eyes miss stuff like that.

On the bio, the author&#039;s name should be the same as it is on the title page and in the slug line; it&#039;s confusing if they&#039;re different.  So if you&#039;ve decided to use a pseudonym under the By... part of the title page (as opposed to the contact info, which should use the name to which you&#039;d prefer to have your royalty checks made out), be consistent throughout your query or submission packet.

May I ask, though, why you&#039;re using a pseudonym at all at the querying or submission stage?  Are you an international man of mystery fleeing justice?

I&#039;m not being entirely facetious -- a writer using a pen name doesn&#039;t actually have to commit to it until after a publisher has already acquired the book.  Both the representation contract and the publication contract are under the author&#039;s legal name (although the publication contract may well stipulate the use of a pseudonym), so unless you feel that (a) using your real name might harm the book&#039;s chances with the agent of your dreams, (b) you already have something published in a different book category under your real name and want to avoid confusion, or (c) you don&#039;t want to tip Interpol off to your whereabouts, you don&#039;t really need to stress about the pseudonym issues until later on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, thanks for catching the numbering gaffe, Doug.  I tend to post these either in the middle or the end of a rather long workday, so sometimes my bleary eyes miss stuff like that.</p>
<p>On the bio, the author&#8217;s name should be the same as it is on the title page and in the slug line; it&#8217;s confusing if they&#8217;re different.  So if you&#8217;ve decided to use a pseudonym under the By&#8230; part of the title page (as opposed to the contact info, which should use the name to which you&#8217;d prefer to have your royalty checks made out), be consistent throughout your query or submission packet.</p>
<p>May I ask, though, why you&#8217;re using a pseudonym at all at the querying or submission stage?  Are you an international man of mystery fleeing justice?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not being entirely facetious &#8212; a writer using a pen name doesn&#8217;t actually have to commit to it until after a publisher has already acquired the book.  Both the representation contract and the publication contract are under the author&#8217;s legal name (although the publication contract may well stipulate the use of a pseudonym), so unless you feel that (a) using your real name might harm the book&#8217;s chances with the agent of your dreams, (b) you already have something published in a different book category under your real name and want to avoid confusion, or (c) you don&#8217;t want to tip Interpol off to your whereabouts, you don&#8217;t really need to stress about the pseudonym issues until later on.</p>
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		<title>By: Doug</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is the author&#039;s name one&#039;s pseudonym (when applicable)? Both in the heading and in the text?

And how am I ever going to keep this series of articles straight when two of them are numbered &quot;IV&quot;? :-)</description>
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<p>And how am I ever going to keep this series of articles straight when two of them are numbered &#8220;IV&#8221;? <img src='http://www.annemini.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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