Nom de Chick

*duplicate post*

I haven't thought much about last names, but i like Dallas for a first :D It's funky/distinctive and isn't ethnically suggestive.

Dallas is very cool, as either a first *or* last name.

Hmm, a lot more folks over in the Mystery forum came up with pen names....maybe b/c they're so busy plotting murders and aliases...;-)

Back in the day, I thought about a pen name of "Lynne Shapiro"; Lynne is my middle name (but I spell it without the "e"), and Shapiro starts with the same two letters of my maiden name but was totally different otherwise. Might drag that out again, especially if I also start writing in other genres and want different names to set them apart.

I always thought the pen name "Paige Turner" was brilliant. Unfortunately, there's a porn star who uses that name. Don't think I'd want to be confused with her. :>)

LOL! what a great name

that *is* brilliant, tho I suppose it might make readers not take the author seriously but hey, it's chick-lit, they're looking for humor! and I"m a sucker for puns

What's even funnier is that a porn star chose that name...I wonder why? wouldn't that imply that the porn antics were so boring that the viewer is reading a book instead of watching the porn?

Even if you don't use it as your pen name you should use it in your novel....;-)

Felicitas van Tasie is a name my mother came up with when she was young, and now she forced me to use it (or "Felicitas" at least) in my novel.

The other fun with names I came up with during plotting will only work in German, I'm afraid...

My favorite pen name is Roxanna Dew. When I was younger, I always like Janice Joy Benedict-- but that was really for a big, flowery historical romance, not chicklit.

I sometimes use the name Michaela King as a pseudonym. My last name is fairly difficult to pronounce... as for the first name, well, in my high school Spanish class we were assigned "Spanish names," and mine was Micaela! I liked it so much it stuck.

I like my real name (Kim Golden) but if I were going to use a nom de plume it would probably by Melanie Laurenco or something more exotic sounding like Sophie van den Hurst.

Love my real name, but there's an erotic writer by the name of Kimberley Dean. Giant dent! That's my name (okay without the funky Kimberley and an s at the end of Dean). So I will probably go by KL Deans.

One trick I learned was you take your first pet's name as your first name and the street you grew up on as your last name so my alias would be Fritzi Flint.

I once had my name butchered by a mail house. I went from Michelle Jenkins to Mielle Jenbus. I use that name as an alias as well.

I just had an unsettling feeling - why do I have two aliases already planned out? I must look into this.

Someone posted this on the Word Wars, Prompts, Sprints forum, fun ....;-)

http://www.testcafe.com/pen/

I heard of tht same trick -- only it was to pick your name as an exotic dancer , LOL!

I don't think I'll be using "Cuddles Amsterdam" as my pen name....but if I ever take up exotic dancing, maybe...:-D

Hey, I'm a name junkie too. :) I've spent a lot of time over the last few years on baby naming bulletin boards. I don't think I'd use a pen name. I have double initials, like A. A. Milne, so I think I would do that. Perhaps I'd use my maiden name. My married name is Hilton, which comes with its own baggage. So, if fame were to fall from the sky I might be T. T. Hilton or T. T. Rothery.

I couldn't resist a thread about names. :)

Traci

Yes, Paris has kind of tarnished the Hilton name -- do you go around saying "no relation" a lot? ;-)

But Rothery sounds very writerly

I use my pen name all time. Joyce C. Williams

At times I may pen some provacative lines, situations etc. I work for my town, and also am a secretary to some officals who may be embarrass. So my pen name protects the innocent. :)

Another writer just told me she was thinking of using one grandmother's first name and the other grandmother's last name.

I thought, Hmm, I could use the first names of both my grandmother and grandfather -- Ana Rafael.
That sounds kinda poetic, I think :-)

I was always told that the way to find your "exotic dancer" name was to take your middle name and your street name. As a kid this would have been Christine Dominion (which sounds like a mystery writers name to me), now it would be Christine Power (which sounds like a self help author's name). If I was going with a pet name, it would be either Punky Power (which I think is actually a phrase from the tv show, Punky Brewster, but I've never seen it, so I don't know), or Peanut Power (which is just weird)

I'll have to come up with something else I think ;)

Well If I exchanged my grandmother's name. I would be

Carrie Knizekiewitz or Antonette Dillon. Neither are appealing to me.

That is a thought- Monica Moore or Margarett Fox. Interesting.

oh, I did this - pretty cool!!

Mine came up Emma Spencer - I kind of like it.

When I decided to become an author years ago I knew I needed a pen name as my real name was already taken by a fairly famous children's author (Audrey Wood). So I've been debating that for years. I've decided that I'm just going to use my initials and call it good, but I still love the name Matilda Jane St. Clair. The the combination of a Lewis Carrol poem and a Barenaked Ladies song.

Anyway, I have a funny nome de plume story. In high school a friend of mine from drama came up to me one day and said the night before she was thinking about what her stage name would be if she needed one. She started thinking about her favotreite actresses Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn and putting their names together. Since Natalie Hepburn sounded bad she decided on Audrey Wood. Then she realized that she knew someone with that name, so it wouldn't work.

i would definitely use a pen name - what if someone i know reads one of my books?!? hee hee

i like Eve for a first name, which is a syllable out of my own name, but im not sure about a last name. maybe Armstrong, which is a family joke name for me anyway.

Hi chicks,

I'm Boutique Bright.

if you're a yoing chick who's intelectually capable, people will admit you're bright, but it always has a bit of a taint to it....like you're a special brand of Boutique bright.... not distinguished like old male professors.... not that brand of intelligentsia.... no You're a young chick on show.... & thus Boutique Bright.

The same way Chic Lit may be insightgul, inteeresting & intelligent but it's still treated like nothing but a pretty little thing... Boutique Bright.

Boutique Bright is the idea writer for my Novel, The Spinster, the Cock and the Box, - an intelligent take on Chic Lit! x

Hi chicks,

I'm Boutique Bright.

if you're a yoing chick who's intelectually capable, people will admit you're bright, but it always has a bit of a taint to it....like you're a special brand of Boutique bright.... not distinguished like old male professors.... not that brand of intelligentsia.... no You're a young chick on show.... & thus Boutique Bright.

The same way Chic Lit may be insightful, interesting & intelligent but it's still treated like nothing but a pretty little thing... Boutique Bright.

Boutique Bright is the idea writer for my Novel, The Spinster, the Cock and the Box, - an intelligent take on Chic Lit! x

What'd you think?

A nice list of naming techniques for all your alter egos -- pen names, characters, whatever!

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car):

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie):

3. YOUR 'FLY GIRL' NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name):

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born):

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first):

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, first tool that comes to mind, put “The” at the beginning):

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers):

9. STRIPPER NAME: (favorite candy, the name of your favorite perfume/cologne):

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )

11. BLUES SINGER NAME: (name of first pet and street you grew up on)

I call myself Elinor Blythe. Elinor for Elinor Dashwood of "Sense and Sensibility" and Blythe for Gilbert Blythe of the Anne of Green Gables series. My name is starts with an E, so I rather have a soft spot for E names anyway.

It's always fun to turn a phrase into a name
like
Joy Tuder Worlde
(say it out loud.... geddit?)
there's some really good name material in some phrases

Ha ha ha! If I used this idea, my nom de plume would be "Shasta Turkey." Nice, eh? Because, of course, I want to have the name "Turkey" forever related to myself. It's always been a dream of mine.... lol I'm totally kidding.

Shasta Turkey...that just sounds terrible. xp

*~*Laura*~* aka Shasta T.

Writers are dreamers with good grammar skills.

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