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The writers all write under pen-names, so while we do not know their identities, they do share with us the fact that they are college students.
Rare Diversions: A Blog Rooted in the Classical Liberal Arts and Two Other Blogs of Note 2009
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Many famous authors wrote using pen-names or were “ghost writers” for professional reasons … John Le Carre springs to mind as one.
Blogging in Tehran (good) Blogging in Lancashire (bad) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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He wrote a whole bunch of crime novels and Westerns under both his own and various pen-names, and I was more than somewhat amused to learn, while recently 'googling', that at least one of them was banned in Ireland!
Crimefest IV: How to make a classic movie for £7,000 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Kate Norway was the popular pen-name of Olive Norton (nee Claydon, 1913-1973) who regularly wrote three hospital romances and two crime novels a year, many appearing under pen-names (Norway, Bess Norton, Hilary Neal).
Paperback Cover Cavalcade 11 Steve 2010
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I'm sure Todd Mason could give you the entire crazed history of it, and he might even know if Rosenquest and Thompson were real people or just pen-names for Ellison and Silverberg, who apparently wrote most of the stories for this publication.
Archive 2010-04-18 Bill Crider 2010
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As a reader, if all the books I like best turned out to be written by women writing under men's pen-names, or written by men writing under women's pen-names, it would make not one iota of difference to me whatsoever.
MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing? 2008
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Elizabeth Adeline McElfresh (1918- ) was a prolific American romance writer under a variety of pen-names (Jennifer Blair, John Cleveland, Jane Scott, Elizabeth Wesley) who specialised in the Doctor/Nurse romance genre.
Paperback Cover Cavalcade 11 Steve 2010
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Did he simply move on and write under other pen-names?
Richard Conroy Steve 2010
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Kate Norway was the popular pen-name of Olive Norton (nee Claydon, 1913-1973) who regularly wrote three hospital romances and two crime novels a year, many appearing under pen-names (Norway, Bess Norton, Hilary Neal).
Archive 2010-03-01 Steve 2010
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Elizabeth Adeline McElfresh (1918- ) was a prolific American romance writer under a variety of pen-names (Jennifer Blair, John Cleveland, Jane Scott, Elizabeth Wesley) who specialised in the Doctor/Nurse romance genre.
Archive 2010-03-01 Steve 2010
dario commented on the word pen-names
it's kind of a writer's alias
April 23, 2010