Separate Email Address?

[[deleted user]]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question but...

I've read online that having a separate email address for professional correspondence is a good idea. Do any of the authors here have any opinion on this? I've already started a blog and emailed a few people from my own personal email address, should I just keep using my personal one or go ahead an slowly transfer all my correspondence to a new, more professional email. My current personal email does not contain my name if that makes a difference.

[Justin]

If you feel you need to separate the two then you should. I get how you'd want to keep them separate. I considered this when I just recently made a mailchimp account and thought I should have another correspondent e-mail but use the same one. Perhaps I'll change it if it gets out of hand.

[Dwayne, Head of Lettuce]

Samantha wrote: "I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question but...

I've read online that having a separate email address for professional correspondence is a good idea."

I guess it depends on the author and his or her reasons for wanting email addresses. I have two, myself. One is for my other work and one is for everything else, writing related stuff included. But, if an author sees a need or just wants a separate email for their writing related stuff, that's what he or she should do.

[Christina]

I have several. I have one related to my writing because it's easier to remember. I use this email address exclusively for social media. I use a different account for my actual monetary transactions related to my book (Amazon, Createspace, etc) because the social media account gets tossed around and I'd rather not have the email attached to my bank account floating about.

[[deleted user]]

I decided to go ahead and make a separate email for all my author related stuff. It'll probably take some time to transfer everything, but in the long run a more professional email will hopefully help my career a bit.

[Benita]

I did create a new email account for my author business - like you, my personal email didn't include my name and was pretty unprofessional. For this new email I used the name that appears on my books. I would say it is important to have a professional-looking email address for business such as querying reviewers and so on.