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Nom de Plume
All In Her Head: A Novel
by, Jill Swenson
November 10, 2015

Today is the release date for All In Her Head: A Novel by Sunny Mera from She Writes Press. I look forward to celebrating the book launch in Brooklyn later this week. To be honest, I wasn’t sure this day would ever come. Not because Sunny Mera couldn’t write, but because of the enormous risks she would need to take in sharing her story with… [Read More]

Filed Under: courage, delusion, mental illness, Nom de Plume, postpartum depression, schizophrenia, shame, She Writes Press, stigma, Sunny Mera
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Nom de Plume: permission to write with abandon?
by, Jill Swenson
December 23, 2014

French for ‘pen name,’ a nom de plume is a fictitious name under which an author publishes. Mark Twain was the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens. George Eliot sounded more serious than Mary Ann Evans.  Theodore Geisel was known as Dr. Seuss. In 1899 William Sydney Porter took the name O. Henry so editors might never know the stories were submitted by a convicted… [Read More]

Filed Under: anonymity, Carmela Ciuaru, George Eliot, George Orwell, J.K. Rowling, Nom de Plume, pseudonym, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath
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