If you published a book, what name would you have your masterpiece published under?
I’ve always thought that when I am published, to pick a name that would put my book near a very popular writer, say Stephen King, if I wrote horror. I would have a last name like Kingsley, to get more exposure and just the chance to have someone pick up my book.
I have never let schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
Great idea! I’ve been working on a pseudo-history book with all kinds of rules on how people should live their lives.
Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine
LOL manhattan, that’s hilarious!
The only names that pop in my mind are too close to porno names, but maybe Clarissa Crane.
Don’t ask why but it’s kinda catchy.
I definitely think it would be Brogan Blackwell
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Enright Miller
Haven’t decided on a first name, but I think my last name would be Collinsworth. Vaguely upper-crust sounding, yet Dark Shadows-y. Maybe I’ll use my real first name, which is Laura.
Laura Collinsworth.
Yeah. That works.
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
I would publish it under my current name, then I would change my last name so you couldn’t look me up in the phone book. Or elsewhere. Maybe I’d switch to my middle name.
But I wouldn’t write any fiction, I’ve given up after an attempt 18 years ago.
My poems are published under my middle name, Elizabeth, and sometimes with my mother’s maiden name, Candela.
Not very creative, but oh well.
I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
John Grisham. EXCELLENT product placement.
Uke
Half Price!
My best friend and I used Roger Billings and George Brooks (interchangeably) as aliases when we were teenagers. We always knew who was who before heading out for the night (I was usually Roger).
So that solves the late '60’s Houston teen crime wave.
Well, my real name’s a tad boring, so I’d likely drop either my first or last name, and stick my middle name in it’s place. Probably my first, as my middle name’s much more interesting as a first name.
Eschew Obfuscation
Joanna Montgomery or Claudia Johansen…my own name would never look good on a fantasy novel.
When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing?
The best names have a long first name, and a short last name, so that when it’s on the cover the surname is extra large. (© copyright Douglas Adams, “Long Dark Teatime of the Soul”)
Anyway, I’d use my own name, because I think it suits me fine. Unique, and it’d be extra cool to see it on the bookshelves in the stores.
-PIGEONMAN-
I’d have to use something like Dudley Manlove - the star of Quest for Fire.
Possibly write a comedy under the name Dirk Emperor, but I cant write.
J
I’m a maniac, a maa-ianac thats for sure,
ANd Im dancin’ like I never did be-foor"
Groundskeeper Willy
Michael Calloway
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. – Malcolm Forbes
My nome de plume whould be:
Admiral James T. Sandecker (ret.)
For excessive smiley useage:
“Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and orphans! No more merciful beheadings!! And cancel Christmas!!!”
Anonymous. Look what it did for Primary Colors. Although manhatten’s idea gets golf claps, too. (in Germany, the Bible is Die Bibel. For some reason I found that endlessly amusing to say…)
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth
Abbie Hoffman.
Eileen Dover 
Edith Wainscott
I don’t think there’s been an Edith published in American fiction for 100 years.