Five things meme, and talking Pseudonyms

[valarltd]

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Phrases Batman Will Never Say", or "Five Jobs House Wishes He Had" or "Five Things Dean Will Never, Ever Tell Sam"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!

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Pseudonyms

Love 'em?
Hate 'em?

Would you be more likely to buy a book by "Angel" or by "Cynthia Sparks or by "M.A. Raleigh?"

Cynthia Wishom? Cynthia Sparks?
Either of those appeal? What notions do they bring up?

I'm debating wether to use Angel Sparrow or a different pseudonym for my pirate novel.
(Thinking Sparrow might be pushing it, y'know?)

Comments

[shaalwyd.livejournal.com]

Depends entirely on the type of book. Cynthia Sparks I'd expect to be writing chicklit, where M.A. Raleigh I'd be expecting to be more universally appealing. I wouldn't trust 'Angel' as an author without a last name, but I wouldn't have a problem with Angel Raleigh, for example.

Wishom... visually, it's very close to Wisdom, so when I see it that's the thought that comes to mind. I would intuitively expect something more insightful from a Wishom than a Sparks, with more thoughtful, evocative writing and attention to detail, where Sparks I would be more expecting... well, sparks. Personally, the 'C-y-n' combination automatically makes me think it's a pseudonym. I don't know why, but I think it has to do with far too many female OCs with names filled with Ys. So Cynthia Wishom appeals to me more, because it sounds less... I don't know, Mills and Boone-ish?

For the 'five things'...

Give me five things Inigo Montoya might do now that he's out of the revenge business.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Wishom and Sparks are both family names.

I have been selling as just "Angel."