1Indy133
Hi,
I'm new here and it's the first time I have encountered a pseudonym used by more than one author.
The Ps. Bert F. Island was used for writers who participated in the German series Kommissar X.
I wanted to add it as a Ps. for Karl-Heinz Günther (1924-2005) but it is already linked to Freder van Holk aka Paul Alfred Müller.
Is there a possibility here to handle these group pseudonyms?
cheers, Indy
I'm new here and it's the first time I have encountered a pseudonym used by more than one author.
The Ps. Bert F. Island was used for writers who participated in the German series Kommissar X.
I wanted to add it as a Ps. for Karl-Heinz Günther (1924-2005) but it is already linked to Freder van Holk aka Paul Alfred Müller.
Is there a possibility here to handle these group pseudonyms?
cheers, Indy
2Indy133
Hi,
I'm new here and it's the first time I have encountered a pseudonym used by more than one author.
The Ps. Bert F. Island was used for writers who participated in the German series Kommissar X.
I wanted to add it as a Ps. for Karl-Heinz Günther (1924-2005) but it is already linked to Freder van Holk aka Paul Alfred Müller.
Is there a possibility here to handle these group pseudonyms?
cheers, Indy
I'm new here and it's the first time I have encountered a pseudonym used by more than one author.
The Ps. Bert F. Island was used for writers who participated in the German series Kommissar X.
I wanted to add it as a Ps. for Karl-Heinz Günther (1924-2005) but it is already linked to Freder van Holk aka Paul Alfred Müller.
Is there a possibility here to handle these group pseudonyms?
cheers, Indy
3spiphany
Group pseudonyms should not be combined with any of the individual authors, so Bert F. Island should be separated from Paul Alfred Müller.
You can look at the page for Carolyn Keene to get an idea of how users have handled similar cases.
Unfortunately LibraryThing isn't set up to handle non-symmetrical author connections (i.e., where author A is the same as author B only some of the time -- authors are either combined or separate).
You can look at the page for Carolyn Keene to get an idea of how users have handled similar cases.
Unfortunately LibraryThing isn't set up to handle non-symmetrical author connections (i.e., where author A is the same as author B only some of the time -- authors are either combined or separate).
5MarthaJeanne
I've put gender n/a into CK.
6Keeline
The juvenile series book world is replete with interesting examples of pseudonyms.
Sometimes we have a name that is always one particular person. It is a personal pseudonym. Examples include "Arthur M. Winfield" = Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930). The obvious example is "Mark Twain" = Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
There are more examples where multiple people worked on a series. Usually these contributors had no ownership of the names or the stories they wrote. Some of these collective names are owned by the publishers and others are owned by book packagers like the Stratemeyer Syndicate (itself now owned by Simon & Schuster). "Carolyn Keene" is an example of this.
Another interesting case is where a real person's name is used as a pseudonym because the person with that name was uninterested or unable to continue a series. For example, Irene Elliott Benson was a real person who wrote two books in a Camp Fire Girls series. She died and the publisher used her name as a pen name to cover works written by other hired writers. Helen Wells wrote many of the Cherry Ames and Vicki Barr series but at least a couple books with her name on the cover and title page were written by another person. Nell Speed is another case where an author died and the work was continued by he sister but retaining the original name for all of the volumes.
It gets complex and library systems, including library thing, are ill-equipped to handle them because their data models are set up for the "Mark Twain" kind of pseudonym.
I've been researching and writing a Series Book Encyclopedia for many years and this topic comes up a lot for me in this work. Other fields have them too but the juvenile series book one is rich in its diversity.
James
Sometimes we have a name that is always one particular person. It is a personal pseudonym. Examples include "Arthur M. Winfield" = Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930). The obvious example is "Mark Twain" = Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
There are more examples where multiple people worked on a series. Usually these contributors had no ownership of the names or the stories they wrote. Some of these collective names are owned by the publishers and others are owned by book packagers like the Stratemeyer Syndicate (itself now owned by Simon & Schuster). "Carolyn Keene" is an example of this.
Another interesting case is where a real person's name is used as a pseudonym because the person with that name was uninterested or unable to continue a series. For example, Irene Elliott Benson was a real person who wrote two books in a Camp Fire Girls series. She died and the publisher used her name as a pen name to cover works written by other hired writers. Helen Wells wrote many of the Cherry Ames and Vicki Barr series but at least a couple books with her name on the cover and title page were written by another person. Nell Speed is another case where an author died and the work was continued by he sister but retaining the original name for all of the volumes.
It gets complex and library systems, including library thing, are ill-equipped to handle them because their data models are set up for the "Mark Twain" kind of pseudonym.
I've been researching and writing a Series Book Encyclopedia for many years and this topic comes up a lot for me in this work. Other fields have them too but the juvenile series book one is rich in its diversity.
James
7bnielsen
>6 Keeline: Pulp crime fiction is also ripe with stuff like that. Other fun stuff is variant spellings of the pseudonym, but of course you already know that. So the only real question I have is: will your Encyclopedia be published under your own name or a pseudonym?
Note to self: http://www.bibliomanen.dk/download/63/ is a list of stuff written by Niels Meyn (Niels Meyn used a _lot_ of different names and some were continued by others and ...)
Note to self: http://www.bibliomanen.dk/download/63/ is a list of stuff written by Niels Meyn (Niels Meyn used a _lot_ of different names and some were continued by others and ...)
8aspirit
>6 Keeline: and >7 bnielsen: Romance has an abundance of examples, too. I've heard of popular ebook series written by author co-ops from which the individual authors aren't publicly disclosed, series that are started by one author before being assigned to ghostwriters under her pen name, and duos in which each author is responsible for one of two main characters.
There's also graphic literature teams (not always businesses!) made up of multiple, dedicated authors who each take on a role in illustration. The byline on many of the works is the team name.
By the way, Keeline, your Series Book Encyclopedia sounds interesting.
There's also graphic literature teams (not always businesses!) made up of multiple, dedicated authors who each take on a role in illustration. The byline on many of the works is the team name.
By the way, Keeline, your Series Book Encyclopedia sounds interesting.
