Pseudonym Adventures - Continued

[jessicasteiner]

So I know I said I wouldn't be mentioning this again, but I learned a few things on this first foray into the world of pen names. I thought people could benefit from it.

Yesterday I uploaded my story to all three of my distributors - Amazon, Kobo, and Smashwords.

Both Amazon and Kobo weren't a problem at all. They have a place for putting in the author's name, and my two books are now sitting on my respective dashboards, separated out by author name, but otherwise fully integrated.

Smashwords doesn't have a field for this. When I uploaded the file, it popped up under my real name and I couldn't find any way to change it. This is... a problem.

I've emailed them to ask for help and I'm still waiting to hear back. I'll let you guys know how that goes.

I figure if they simply don't support multiple author names, I'll have to create a separate account. The problem there, is that it will add yet another place where sales are accumulating, and further delay my payday. Furthermore, it increases the number of places I need to log in to check my sales and such. It's annoying, but not insurmountable.

I'm out of town for the long weekend. On Monday I'll tell you how I accidentally attributed my gay erotic vampire story to an author who writes about the Amish.

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

D2D only distributes to Apple, Kobo, B&N, and Amazon so far, unfortunately. They wouldn't be replacing Smashwords for me fully anyway, because I actually sell books on the Smashwords site. I know they're working on wider distribution, though--it's still in beta, though it's an open beta now.

I'm glad you managed things with the publisher account!

[jessicasteiner]

Yeah, I sell them on the smashwords site, too. I'll keep an eye on them, but at this point I feel like it's going to work out and there's no particular need to switch to a new site.