I'm not referring to her sexuality.
I mean a Harvard graduate, Oxford researcher was writing SWEET VALLEY HIGH.
She has admitted it here, years later, in this NPR article.
And also said this: "I've been getting these wonderful letters from readers, who are women now — who are lawyers, who are doctors, who grew up reading these books, sort of, under the covers with their flashlights. And their parents wanted them to be reading Jane Eyre or something more serious.
"I think many of us have a kind of guilty pleasure about some of this lighter cultural material, and I think there's room for both."
Go Twilight, eh?
I always thought that if I ever wrote something publishable, I'd do it under a pseudonym, just because... I don't know why. It's like my stuff would never be quite good enough for me to put my real name on it.
The Brontes, George Eliot (I don't even know her real name), and even JK Rowling wanted to be mistaken for male writers, and chose their author names accordingly.
1. Would you publish under your own name, regardless of the genre or the cultural regard for your type of work? YA? Erotic fiction?
2. Would you write for a series anonymously, like the writers of Nancy Drew and Sweet Valley High?
