people turn out to be person who turns out to be people

[beccaelizabeth]

There is an author I found a bunch of books by, all only second hand, couldn't find any new ones. Jonathan Wylie. Turns out the new ones are by another author I've been buying and liking, Julia Gray. Because JW is actually 'Mark and Julia Smith' and uses pen names.

First reaction - cool, more books!
Second reaction, oh, I already have the more books.
Third - why do people do that? I mean, if the books are by M&JS, why doesn't it say M&JS on the cover? It would be rather easier to figure out they were by the same peoples.
Possibly because theres a lot of Smiths in the world?
But then why change names?
Is confusing.

Still, there are actually a few more books I don't have, so, coolness.

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

You know my Maiden/still my legal name is Smith, right? Googling me, even with middle name or middle initial, is a nasty blow to my feeling of being a unique snowflake, let me tell you.

Julia, on the other hand, there's only about a hundred people with my husband's last name in North America