Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.
As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.
