Recent questions tagged authors

Description : Why do some authors use Pen name instead of real name?

Last Answer : To hide their identity. I have a couple of friends who write and use pen names. Reasons vary: They work in the public eye and don't want their real life audience to know about what they write. They don't ... feel it will be better revived. I always thought if I wrote a book I would use a pen name.

Description : What do you think of people who call themselves a "writer," then proceed to write the most awkward things, full of misspellings, grammatical errors and wrong words?

Last Answer : Just means that they are bad writers.

Description : Why do people write memoirs when they aren't all that old?

Last Answer : Yes, it is about ego and money. Frankly, I could not fill a single page, because I can barely remember anything.

Description : What do you do when you are reading a book and see a typo / misspelling that the editors missed?

Last Answer : I would ignore it.

Description : Besides Ayn Rand, who are other authors who continue to be extremely popular after their death?

Last Answer : Agatha Christie.

Description : Adult Women Only--Do you read or are you a writer? I need your opinion on something that I find very unrealistic.

Last Answer : I am not a writer (other than my verbose comments on ask-public) and I don't read much; but I am a mother of a teenage boy. 5'1 and 101 pounds is believable for a 13 year old boy but on the ... lbs. or so, I was unable to physically restrain my son. I am 5'6 and average strength for a woman.

Description : What can you tell me about the person, Victor Santoro, author of GASLIGHTING (1944)

Last Answer : answer:on a quick search i found nothing. apparently he does not like to be found lol. fyi he wrote the book in 1994. the movie came first by fifty years. Gaslight (1944) http://www ... the kitchen And then - a nice relaxing hand of solitaire http://www.slangcity.com/ask_ac_archive/gaslighting.htm