If you were planning to adopt a pseudonym for the novel you're querying, would you mention it in the query? How would you put it? Would you have to reveal your real name?
Can you mention in the query that you want to write this book under a pseudonym?
If agents were offering me representation or publishers offering me contracts I wouldn't need a pseudonym.Query under your real name and when an agent offers representation or publisher offers contract, speak to them about it.
If agents were offering me representation or publishers offering me contracts I wouldn't need a pseudonym.
I'm open to suggestions on how to phrase the fact that I want to use a pseudonym in my query.DON'T phrase it that way!
Is there a specific point in doing so?
I'm open to suggestions on how to phrase the fact that I want to use a pseudonym in my query.
Because I don't want to be rejected on the basis of my real name's track record of poor sales.
Poor sales as in previous books in the same genre a few years ago.Poor sales as in what?
Poor sales as in previous books in the same genre a few years ago.
Having said this, an agent doesn't have to mention your real name to a publisher until after the publisher loves your book.