There are a whole mess of pseudonyms out there, including multiple names for writers who publish in various genres. On one hand, choosing a name for yourself again and again might be fun. On the other hand, holy pressure, Batman. (Hmmm. Pseudonym: Pressure Batman?)
What makes a good pseudonym? If you’re Leslie Parrish or Roxanne St. Claire, maybe it’s a subtle religious reference. Of course, Roxanne is using her real name. Leslie Parrish’s real actual legal name, if you didn’t know, is Bestselling Powerhouseauthor Withfabulousshoes. She goes by “Bes” among her friends, though.
So, what do you think makes a good romantic suspense pseudonym with clerical undertones? And once you’ve come up with your pseudonym, what does this author write?
For example:
Virginia Churchmouse, author of the Holly Needsit series, about a woman who must copulate every day for a year, with 365 different men who form her stable of studly volunteers.
Carol St. Anges, author of extremely cozy mystery-romantic suspense featuring Violet Chenille, who solves crimes from her Craftmatic Adjustable Bed.
Come up with your pseudonym and body of work, leave your idea in the comments, and the best three win ARC copies of Parrish’s July and August releases, Fade to Black and Pitch Black. Comments close in 24 hours so have fun. Suspensefully, of course.
Sue Sheff is the author of the bestselling Culinary Carnage triology, featuring America’s favorite Sweet-tart Delilah Doughnaught. She kicks ass and takes bakery orders with out breaking a sweet, er, sweat. She’s pipin’ hot and ready to roll right over the bad guys. The cute hero too!
Dee Dawning writer of erotic and sinful books is actually a man…. but he writes an awesome POV from female leads…..
Lilath Templar is the author of the erotic suspense series The Secret Daze of Knights.
The heroine of the series is the notorious ‘other woman’ who sets out to break into well know HEA’s in the attempt to re-write as much of history as possible.
E.D. Pipe penned the first novel of the ‘Nuff Said series after being bedridden from Swine Flu. The heroine, Cindy Nuff, pieces together sadistic crimes involving farm animals gone mad. The first two novels “Sneezing Cows” and “Coughing Pigs” hit the NYT bestseller list.
*lol, my spam word is “farm” LMAO!*
Lilith Eden
Author of the paranormal mystery series, “Forbidden Fruit,” featuring Eve O’Passion, who was cast out by her people centuries ago for the horrific crime of wanting to be on top while enjoying the Mighty Wang of Luuuurve and was cursed to an eternal existence wandering the Earth as an insatiable succubus. Now she squeezes in the Netherworld Nookie between the cases she solves with the private investigation agency she and Isaac Laquedem run.
Security code is want83—I know there’s something witty I could do with that but I’m totally drawing a blank here. :B
To add some diversity to the cauldron of awesomeness:
Lakshmi Indira is the author of Tweeter and the Monkey Man, the story of Jersey girl and bounty hunter Tiffany “Tweeter” Vincerelli and Maruti Nandan—who just so happens to be the avatar of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey deity. Maruti can’t keep his paws off Tweeter, but when a bounty gone bad threatens Tweeter’s life, and a mysterious undercover cop shows up looking for his sister named Jan, even the love of a deity may not be enough to save her.
(Tom Petty reference for those thoroughly confused)
This one had me falling out of my chair. LOL! I’d definitely buy that!
I D Feelgood writes self-help sex books in the “Wango Tango” series. The first to be called “The Big Ten Inch”. Can you tell I’ve been listening to 70’s rock today while mowing the yard?
Angelia Priest, who writes a series about Sister Mary Margaret and her investigations into the mischief and mahem her cloister’s members get into, including the first novel detailing her bff Magdalena’s seduction away from her calling by Damon St. John. (Don’t worry, he turns out to be a good guy – it’s a hea!) She frequently crosses paths with Brother Luke and the incredible chemistry she has with him is series long story arc.
Angela St. John or maybe Gabriela Michaels. Romances about angels that swoop down, in human form, upon unsuspecting women who need some special TLC and full body massages. Heh, wishful thinking.
Camilla Effulvia-Overdone
Lady Camilla pens her famous historical romantic mystery series, Doctor I. M. Steele, in the fragrant orangery of the stately, slightly mouldering, Overdone Manor. Famed for her historical accuracy, she incorporates many of the refined sensibilities of the Georgian period into her works, including the proper use of a fine tooth comb for the removal of head lice, the use of purgatives for good health and the proper collection, application and removal of leaches. Lady Camilla has an extensive collection of period medical equipment. She is president of the local chapter of the Colon Cleansing Society and a frequent speaker on the importance of enemas for the health of the colon. Contrary to what one reviewer snarked after reading ‘The Mystery of the Shoe Buckle” , she is not full of shit. “The Mystery of the Missing Shoe Buckle” is 72,859,203 on the Amazon bestseller list for historical medical mysteries.
Zebra59, a pseudonym for an infamous critic of her work, questions her dedication to colon cleansing, claiming she eats too many refined foods and prunes would be far healthier. Lady Camilla rebuts this claim saying, “The scoundrel is the the pay of Professor Plum!”
Prudence Puritan, a prim & proper court reporter is accidentally caught up in a jewelry heist and is forced to sacrifice herself at the alter of buttsecks (must protect her virginity!) in order to save the life of the dark, smoldering Detective McNaughty.
Jasmine Cluck
She writes a tale of a young girl that falls in love with a chicken while dealing with her love of eating chicken. Will the love of a good chicken stop her from eating it or will the chicken have to consult a witch to have her turned into a chicken herself?
Mary-Katherine O’Conavent writes mysteries set in an all-girls’ Catholic school in South Boston. The series follows former police detective Maggie Malone, who, after seeing too much on the hard streets, hung up her shield and took her vows. Sister Margaret (as she is now known) now teaches PE at Saint Agnes Catholic High School and, due to her previous experience and contacts, solves any crimes that place on campus. Surprisingly for a school full of nuns and teen-aged girls, the high school has an incredibly high crime rate as evidenced by the 10 books in the series.
Crap! I gave the heroine the religion-inspired name! How ‘bout it was written by Holly Cross?
spam word: power38 – it’ll take 38 cuppas to power up my brain!
Misty St. Givesashit brings us the newest installment in her continuing Romantic Suspense series featuring that enigmatic Miami pimp —- Manny deMann.
The Mann thinks he has found true love—- but the buxom beauty with her throat cut and her body wrapped backwards around the strippers’ pole is too dead even for this corpulent necrophiliac.
Perhaps it is the victims’ friend—and sometimes love-muffin, Inez Innuendo, who will lead him to the murderer——or at least play dead in bed with our hero.
I can’t decide which author name above I love the most but it’s leaning toward DELILAH ST. SEXBURGA & MARTHA PEWSITTER! So well done!
Angela St. James: she is the author of series of books taking place in the 19th century about a psychic who becomes a nun because she believes that she will go to hell if she doesn’t repent for the sin of precognition. Not long into her second year as a nun, the pastor is murdered and she is the prime suspect because she knows things that only the murderer could possibly know. So she must solve the case before she is sent to prison for a murder that she did not convice, all the while resisting the handsome constable, who might just send all of her good intentions straight to Hell.
Anna Domini
The Monkshood Trilogy, a series detailing the story of Marco Aracceli, a Monk who broke his vow of silence to help save his childhood sweetheart from a serial stalker, was a great success for author Anna Domini. All three books, “Under the Monkshood”, “Valerian’s Choice” and “The Eight Sacrament” spent weeks at the top of the best sellers list. Now Anna Domini announces that her upcoming release “Kicking the Habit” will be the start of a new series featuring Mary Angel,former nun turned private investigator. Mary is unprepared when Father Giorgio Venetti, the man who inspired such feelings in Mary that she chose to leave the Church, shows up at her doorstep claiming that someone may be stealing from his church. When the case turns out to be bigger and more sinister than either of them expected will Mary and Giorgio make it out alive?
Martha Goose Saint-Helsing
Author of the Tumbling After series, the trying tales of zombie-resurrectionist and private investigators Jack and Jill as they battle dominant vampire [read bloodsucking top] Humpty Dumpty – climaxing ever closer to exposing Nursery Rhymes for the bottom-feeders they are and riding them straight to hell.
Buy all three pulse-pounding volumes: La Petite Mort In The Cathedral, The Agnostic and the Ecstasy and, the triumphant finale, Requiem For An Orgasm
(you ladies bring out the silly in me)
Anna Domini
The Monkshood Trilogy, a series detailing the story of Marco Aracceli, a Monk who broke his vow of silence to help save his childhood sweetheart from a serial stalker, was a great success for author Anna Domini. All three books, Under the Monkshood, Valerian’s Choice and The Eight Sacrament spent weeks at the top of the best sellers list.
Now Anna Domini announces that her upcoming release Kicking the Habit will be the start of a new series featuring Mary Angel, a former nun turned private investigator. Mary is unprepared when Father Giorgio Venetti, the man who inspired such feelings in Mary that she chose to leave the Church, shows up at her doorstep claiming that someone may be stealing from his church. When the case turns out to be bigger and more sinister than either of them expected will Mary and Giorgio make it out alive?
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savannah cheyenne
Anon Y. Mous is best known for her tales of Sister Hellsbells a one quarter-demon, one-eighth angel, and one hundred percent blessed crime-fighting, 12th-century nun, who finds that once you successfully fight the Powers of Darkness and embrace chastity (well, at least on Sundays) it becomes a habit!
Recent titles by Ms. Mous:
“A Hard Dazed Knight”
“Matens of a Mourning”
“Ring My Hellsbells”
I forgot to mention (and can’t edit to add) that the UST comes in the form of the hunky groundskeeper, former Navy Seal, Dirk MacHallaran. What started as a working relationship between Sister Margaret and Dirk during the first book, Superior Beings (when they teamed up to solve the murder of the Mother Superior), has burgeoned to a close friendship by the tenth.
love new authors ,n
Ack! I forgot to close the bracket—I never do that! Sorry!
Although, how funny is it (given the topic) that my word is church26?
Still not closed? Damn!
Matthew Maccabee
Author of the acclaimed mystery series starring Rabbi turned NYPD cop Micah Rosenberg from Flushing, Queens. For ten years, Micah was a Rabbi, then his whole world came tumbling down around him when his wife and daughter were brutally murdered. The Forsaken, the first novel in the series introduced Micah as a family man, who had lost everything, including his faith in God. The only saving grace was his passion for justice and a taste for vengeance. Every case is one more piece to the puzzle of who killed his family and why. Only once he has found out the truth can he ever get his faith back.
“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” marks the debut of the alt-uni detective agency known as Les Chaussures, created by Tootsie Lafitte. Employing the deductive reasoning outlined in the old nursery rhyme, their cases usually focus on the struggle between the well-heeled Chius and the scrappy Schoels crime families. The steamy followup, “Three, Four, Shut the Door” takes the team into the world of fetish footwear.
Bathsheba Upwright
Cast the First Stone Set a year after the Salem witch trials, the people of Larkham, Mass are horrified to have an accusation of murder by witchcraft in their midst. Determined to have a proper investigation, they call in Jacob Cloverly, a brooding, tortured, investigator, determined to find the truth. However, he’s a bit too tortured for beautiful, feisty Mary Parkins, who decides to hunt for the truth on her own….
Brick Hause
Author of Paranormal Intrigue story about Devyne Extasy – a private investigator with the power to mesmerise people by showing them her cleaveage. She uses her cleaveage to solve crimes .
Mary Agnes Ofgott writes a mystery series set in a nunnery. Her heroine, Violenta Jones is one of the students who were educated by the nuns. She wields her ruler with brutal efficiency, and solves crimes.
Word: series82: apparently it’s a series with 82 books. That’s Agatha Christie class.
Verity Jewel
Author of the ‘Geordie’s Angels’ series – a set of books about the secret female bodyguards of the Prince Regent. Coming from all walks of life, disguised as whores, servants and noblewomen, they have given up on a conventional life to devote themselves to their prince. One by one see these feisty women tamed by passion and healed by love of their unnatural desire to be autonomous.
Hmm. As I glance upstream, I think I may not have gone far enough over the top on the first try. Herewith an attempt to rectify this
Pseudonym: Dru Iddick
From Herne/Aphrodite Press comes a series so steamy each volume comes with its own pair of heatproof gloves. Salem Wilder Hott is the high priestess of COPULA, the Council Of Pagans United for Loving Acceptance, an organization devoted to bringing Goddess worship and other neo-pagan faiths into the mainstream by any means necessary. In pursuit of these goals, she travels America in pursuit of hypocritical televangelists, pleasure-seeking politicians, open-minded agnostics, and anyone else willing to be seduced onto the path of omnisexual happiness. Against her stands NILLA, the New Inquisitors for Locking Lust Away, led by Salem’s arch-nemesis (and ex-husband) Harry “Wet Noodle” Wang. Their ongoing battles for the nation’s bedrooms (and classrooms, and offices, and hot tubs, etc.) are guaranteed to singe your eyebrows and make other parts of your anatomy howl for mercy….
Jezebel Nave
Jezebel writes romantic suspense. Her first book features Psyche Jensen (an appropriately named forensic psychiatrist) who is brought in by the Chicago Bureau of Investigation to help solve a series of crimes where bodies of murdered prostitues have been posed in the sacristy of local churches. Psyche’s theory is the murder has a big madonna/whore complex….
Tobee Red Angzahyitee
(to be read anxiety)
Tobee wants to write so much romance suspense, she doesn’t know where to start! It gives her anxiety of the books she wants to read and those she wants to write. You’ll be taken away with her reads leaving your housework to neglect for days! TV Dinners and take outs is the norm!
Joanna S., “A Hard Dazed Knight” is a brilliant title. And the “one quarter-demon, one-eighth angel” lineage is pretty inspired too.
John C. Bunnell‘s NILLA made me laugh. Fabulous!
Goodwina Twoshooz is the author of the Bankhouse mysteries featuring Ms Uppity Wellbourne, head of the private banking religious division working for her older brother, Cuthburt Wellbourne III, the uptight heir of the family bank and secret business partner in Black Hole, a private sex club for the wealthy fetish crowd.
In Bank On It, Uppity needs the help of of the private, but sleazy, investigator Depravid Backdorian and partner in her secret spanking fetish, when her client, Pastor Sweetie Cheeks, suspects fraud at the St John the Baptist Waterpark. The prime suspect is Rev Elton Shrapnel of the Church of What’s Happening Now and owner/operator of the rival Nights of the Templar Mini-golf and Baptismal Ice Cream Fountain Shop, open 24 hours. Uppity must solve the crime with Backdorian’s help, but she will learn that benches are for more than just sitting! A Sweetie Cheeks has more than one secret she’s keeping. Will Depravid Backdoorian get the payment he wants from Uppity while she’s wearing her Jimmy Choo’s?
Celeste St. York-Cathedral
Best-selling paranormal romance author St. York-Cathedral takes her inspiration from her own careers as a library assistant, ethnobotanist, sous-chef, and phone sex operator.
In her renowned first series, she recounted the adventures of Clerestory Smythe, accidental time-traveling librarian on a quest for true love and a way back home, her only clue a vague memory of a man with an erotic tatoo in an embarassing location .
Now, St. York-Cathedral brings you the start of a spectacular new saga. Pastry chef Perpetua Lawrence never expected to inherit a decrepit old restaurant from a long-lost aunt. She especially wasn’t expecting the demon chef bound to serve in the kitchen, or that her regular customers would include a vampire with an addiction to sweets and an ex-incubus looking for a new career.
But when a horde of undead with an appetite for dishes that are definitely not on the menu appear, Perpetua realizes that her aunt’s long-lost recipe collection holds the secret to preventing more than just a culinary catastrophe….
Goodwina Twoshooz is for my SIL who has no internet, but does have a lively imagination.
Best. Title. Ever.
Industria Turbineheart writes humorous steampunk detective romances, featuring Lancashire Detective Sergeant Comebychance, his trainee Officer Newby, and a delightful cast of supporting characters, including the Reverend Mildly, whose passion for detective fiction often provides insights to help solve important cases. Recent titles include A Fair Division of Labourer and Rest In Peas. Ms. Turbineheart’s next release will be On the Grandess’ Right Secret Service, in which Comebychance goes undercover with special officer Abigail Falsework, posing as newlyweds. Will their charade be successful—perhaps TOO successful? Look for it in 2010.