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deadly-liaisons
AUTHOR  NameDee Ann Palmer From:Southern California, United States "I Love a Mystery" was my favorite childhood radio show. It came on after I was in bed at night, adding to the delicious intrigue and scariness of it. After the Sisters in Crime/LA meetings, my husband and I browse Canterbury Records in Pasadena. He finds all kinds of tapes of his favorite old radio shows: I have found none of mine. Although I'm basically a romance writer whose stories often include elements of suspense, mystery and thriller, those early experiences with "I Love a Mystery" led me to test the waters in pure murder and mystery. THE EVILS OF FILE SHARING Death in the House DARRELL AND SARAH ARE WINNERS! Meeting Friends See MySpace THREE BEAUTIFUL THINGS SUNDAY JUNE 10 IS "NO CRIME UNPUBLISHED" MYSTERY W... DARRELL JAMES INTERVIEW GETTING STORY IDEAS Santa Anita Derby
COLD CASE
FINGER PRINTS
CLUES
"NO CRIME UNPUBLISHED 2007" Mystery Writers Conference A CLEAN, WELL LIGHTED PLACE
SISTERS IN CRIME
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 PEN NAMES aka PSEUDONYMS Recently a new author emailed to ask what I thought about using a pseudonym. She wondered if it confused readers. I told her absolutely not! The purpose is to separate different genres and so PREVENT confusion for readers. There's great precedence for this. Although I don't recall the name, Dean Koontz' first books were under a pseudonym. I believe they've been released now as written by Dean Koontz. James Oliver Rigney Jr. wrote "The Wheel of Time" fantasy series and "Conan the Destroyer" as Robert Howard. He wrote a trio of historical novels set in Charleston as Reagan O'Neil. He published a western under the name of Jackson O'Reilly. (Sadly, the 9/19 "Los Angeles Times" carries an obituary for him. He was 58, and working on the final book in his "Wheel" series when he died of a blood disease that strikes only one in a million people.) Barbara Mertz, Ph.D. in Egyptology, writes non fiction under that name. As Elizabeth Peters, she writes the historical Amelia Peabody and contemporary Vicky Bliss series. Her contemporary suspense books are under Barbara Michaels. I love Amelia Peabody, but I'm not so enthralled with Vicky Bliss. Sometimes I think Michaels is compelling, other times not so. Jayne Ann Krentz writes under that name, and she pens historicals as Amanda Quick (love these). I don't know what she writes as Jayne Castle, Jayne Bentley, Jayne Taylor and Stephanie James. Famous Nora Roberts writes contemporary romance, but her sci fi mysteries are as J.D. Robb. If you don't like sci fi, but you love Nora Roberts' romances, you aren't going to buy a Robb book. If you did, you'd be very disappointed. I happen to enjoy them both. Readers often seek out the pen names and try those books, but they know they'll be reading in a different genre and may not like them as well. Have a great day, Dee Ann heists2683@mypacks.net http://www.deeannpalmer.com http://www.myspace.com/deeannpalmerwriter 
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CRY OF THE BELLS
LANDMARKED FOR MURDER LOS ANGELES MARATHON
TOE TAGS
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