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Pseudonyms, Writing Teams, and Family Connections
You're probably all aware of authors who write using multiple pen names. A few examples are:
Author | Writing as . . . | Agatha Christie | Mary Westmacott | Joyce Carol Oates | Rosamond Smith | Ruth Rendell | Barbara Vine | Donald E. Westlake | Richard Stark | Nora Roberts | JD Robb | Jayne Ann Krentz | Amanda Quick | Stephen King | Richard Bachman | JK Rowling | Robert Galbraith |
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Writing Together Did you also know that some authors are actually a writing team? Some examples are:
Published As | Writing Pair | Nicci French | Nicci Gerard & Sean French | Charles Todd | Caroline & Charles Todd (mother-son) | PJ Tracy | PJ & Traci Lambrecht (mother-daughter) |
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All in the Family While they may not always publish books together, writing definitely seems to run in the family:
Stephen King, Tabitha King and Joe Hill | James Lee Burke and Alafair Burke | Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman | Elmore Leonard and Peter Leonard | Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark | William F. Buckley and Christopher Buckley |
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Can you think of other writing teams who publish under one name or other families that have multiple authors? Send them to us (kklapperstuck@monroetwplibrary.org) and we will include an extended list in the next issue!
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Dear Library Lady, One of my favorite things to do is to read a good mystery. But lately I feel like I'm reading the same plot over and over again. I'm not really a fan of romance or science fiction or for that matter, non-fiction. Do you have any ideas about getting me out of my slump? I need HELP!!! Frantically Yours, Frantic Freida Dear F.F., Never fear , the Library Lady is here!!! Let me quote George R. R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones. "Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we've never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seems to me that there are good stories and bad stories, and that is the only distinction that truly matters." My friend George is SO smart. You may not like science fiction but that may be because you've never read "good" science fiction. So keep that in mind the next time you visit us at the beautiful Monroe Township Public Library. Don't hesitate to ask for help in locating something new to try. your friend between the covers, The Library Lady
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The Barrens
by Rosamond Smith
The eyewitness to a murder as a child, Matt McBride's memory haunts him still, and now that another attractive young woman has disappeared--who Matt knows a little too intimately for a married man--he becomes erratic and obsessed with guilt, making himself a suspect and target for the real killer.
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The Child's Child : a novel
by Barbara Vine
Inheriting their late grandmother's sprawling, book-filled home in London, siblings Grace and Andrew Easton move in together and initially enjoy a shared life that is complicated by Andrew's gay relationship with a strident novelist, the shattering murder of a friend and Grace's discovery of a long-lost manuscript.
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Backflash
by Richard Stark
Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the master thief deep in troubled waters when his plan to hijack a riverboat casino goes awry.
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The Red Room
by Nicci French
A psychologist and police consultant, Grace Shilling is traumatized by her feelings of guilt over the victims she has been unable to help, but when two women are found brutally murdered near a local canal, she reluctantly agrees to assist the police with the case and discovers that the murders are not what they seem and finds herself at the center of the violence.
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Watchers of time : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
by Charles Todd
Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard arrives in the Norfolk port of Osterly to investigate the murder of the local Catholic priest, a man obsessed with the sinking of the Titanic, who had attended the deathbed of Herbert Baker, a Protestant who had demanded to see a Catholic priest as he lay dying.
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Monkeewrench
by P. J. Tracy
Grace McBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer, a situation that prompts them to analyze the game in order to anticipate his next move.
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