Authors With One Pen Name Across Different Genres

In this post we share an infographic of authors who only used one pen name when they wrote.

Please read our previous posts: Should You Use A Pen Name For Every Genre That You Write? and Authors With Different Pen Names For Different Genres.

Some authors choose one genre and stay with that during their whole writing career. Other authors couldn’t stick to one genre if their lives depended on it, preferring to explore as many genres as their imaginations long for. The most common advice for the latter is to have a different pen name for every genre. That’s good advice, but it can become complicated. And authors who are willing to buck the ‘stick to one genre’ advice, may also buck the ‘have different pen names’ advice as well. Here are 5 authors that did both.

Authors With One Pen Name Across Different Genres

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by Elaine Dodge. Author of The Harcourts of Canada series and The Device Hunter, Elaine trained as a graphic designer, then worked in design, advertising, and broadcast television. She now creates content, mostly in written form, including ghost writing business books, for clients across the globe, but would much rather be drafting her books and short stories.

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