After last weeks blog post I gave it a lot of thought.  I still will plow forward and start to write the novel.  In all my reading about erotica authorship, I find that everyone uses a pseudonym – a pen name.  There are privacy concerns.  There are job related retaliation concerns.  There are moral clauses.  There are so many reasons not to do this.

Why am I doing this?  I’ll keep asking myself that question.  In the meantime, I’ve not written anything worth publishing, so there is no point in getting too deep into this philosophical debate.

How do I come up with a pen name that I like?

I went through lists and lists of names.  Too long to discuss here.  Let me say I did not miss a single name between Adam Abel, and Zoe Zachari.  It was brutal.  Do I have a first name, middle name, and last name?  Do I have first name, middle initial, and a last name?  What if I only have two letters and a last name?

Examples:  e.e. cumming, C.S. Lewis, and so many more. 

Points up a few paragraphs.  See, this is where I ask myself – would they have written erotica?

I’ve read books by Kenny Wright, Ben Boswell – both are amazing.  I read several books by Arnica Butler, Sean Geist, Jason Lenov, Lexy Archer too many more to name here.  What they have in common is that they have simple, easy to remember names.

I started with a comment I jotted down: The Smut Author.  I kept playing with it.  Little by little I came to the conclusion: T. S. Arthur, was the pen name for me to start with.

Now you know how I chose my pen name.  I hope you had a better time of it.