Identifying as an Author?

Identifying myself as an Author
I am a mother, I am an artist, I am a woman, I am a teacher, I am a total sci-fi geek, I am a friend.
Those are easy.
I am just not sure why I am having a problem identifying as an author.

Why is that "identity" so powerful?

I read an interesting blog post by Lori Nandrea recently about the idea of an author's identity and how it directly relates to the readers judgement.

She said, "In the realm of fiction, authorship “scandals” may be more playful, or more strategic. Like many Victorian women, J. K. Rowling used her initials to protect her work from gender bias. She then published her recent mystery novel under the pen name Robert Galbraith, and invented a biography for him. Clearly, she knows how powerfully the reader’s knowledge of the author’s identity shapes the way a book is read. It provides what’s often called a “frame,” though “lens” may be a better word. We read (or look, or listen) through lenses compounded of expectations, associations, sympathies, antipathies, bias of all kinds. To hide one lens, Rowling handed us another, which points toward the impossibility of lens-free reading—or at least, lens-free meaning."

All of this makes me a little concerned. Now that I have written my first novel, it makes me look at myself differently.

As a painter I never have thought about the way I presented myself to the art world. My paintings would speak for themselves. My collector's would never be concerned about who I was, or what my artistic identity represented? They just liked the work!

I am wondering what makes the Literary World so different?

I am in the process of creating my new identity, but I have never been good at pretense. I am just a girl that likes to create. I paint, I build and I make up stories.

Inside I am hoping that is enough!