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Can you self publish under pen names on Amazon and/or Smashwords?
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You can write things under a differnt name I do. As long as the legal stuff are your legal name all things are good.
Just open a different around under you pen name. The bank info will have your real name, but no one ever sees it. I have an account for my pen name which I do not use to buy. Then I have an account that I use for purchases and reviews. Never the twain shall meet except for the bank info.
I really don't think you can have two Penn names under one account because when you change your pseudonym, it changes for everything else you have done (all previous reviews go under the new name).
Could be wrong though!
Splitter
There is actually a thing to click on to read about that.
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Surely! Give me a second, because I know I was worried with the pen name stuff.
I'm having issues finding it which makes me think that it was createspace that I was reading but this is the link you can ask questions, they are seriously helpful and nice!https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/h...
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Your welcome!! Hehe thank you Amy :)! I tried a few things and couldn't find it on Author Central on amazon, Good Luck Julian!
Julian, if you're set up as a publisher you could, and on Smashwords so long as you have 2 author accounts set up separately, you can combine them into a publisher account. On Amazon I'd've thought it was just a matter of publishing the books through your normal account and then you'd have to set up the author page etc separately, but just cos the books were published on the same publisher account doesn't tie them together anywhere the public can see I think, unless you use one of your normal ISBNs bought for the first persona. If you haven't done that or if you're going with Createspace / Smashwords ones, I don't see where they'd connect you up, offhand.
For posting and reviews you'd have to make a separate log-in for each name, but for the actual kdp stuff I'd say not.
Best to check, obv, but offhand that's my guess.
JAC
Thanks for comments, everyone. I've done a little more research and apparently on Amazon you can. I've read that on your Author Central page, if you click on "add more books" you can find other books by you under different names and add them to creat more author profiles, and then you can merge them somehow. Haven't tried it yet!
Wow....please report back, that is news to me!Very cool.
Splitter
Julian, i think the "Add more books" button is for when there are other books you want to link to the same Author Central profile - ie I'm just doing a short story and will prob have to go and link them up that way to tell Amazon that I am the same JAClement as the one who wrote ODS-1.I think it depends whether you have your author's hat on or your publisher's hat; author central is for the author's hat or hats, so you have a profile for each name.
KDP is for when you have your publisher's hat on; as a producer of manuscripts by different named authors (even if both of them are yourself) you can have one profile on kdp that publishes books by whoever.I may be wrong of course, but that's my understanding of it.
Y'know, the other thing would be to do the whole Iain Banks thing, and just have an extra initial for your villagey stuff.
JAC
I upload on KDP with my Amazon account (under my real name) and as you get to write down the author name, I think you can upload as many as you wish... But then you need different pages for each name at Author Central (I still have only one pen-name at the moment, but plan on writing other things under other names).As for Smashwords, yeah, you probably need a publisher account, although they're working for authors that use multiple pen-names... so you don't have to have 10 accounts! ;-)
This thread seems to be the closest to my question/comment. If you get a chance, or just for comic relief, please check out my post:http://thejoyofthewrittenword.wordpre...
I ask because my main thing is writing horror, but every now and then I feel this urge to write about vicar's wives, jam-making and garden parties, so I think I need more than one identity!
Julian