Pen Names. How did you come up with one?

Depends on the niche? David D'angelo works pretty well in the 'dog niche'. Ricardo Von Carlos Monte De Vasquez works well in the 'Devil's Dance' niche.... (Or Dicky 'The Land shark' Studebaker). Lol.

Yo, Adrian, body building?

Might have several for different niches.

I took my first name and middle name, translated them and switched them around, I'm English and from the UK but Italian in nationality.

Then Adrian would seem to fit the bill. Especially to anyone that has seen 'Rocky' movies. Good luck. (Ari Adrian) (Yuri Yuramani)

I was listening to a song, and I misheard the lyrics (this error is called a "mondegreen"). When I found out that the actual words were not the name I was hearing, I thought "that would be a cool name" and checked whether the dot-com was available. It was. I bought it.

I am not using this name yet. I work by feel. A name will feel like something, and I'll think it would be a good name to use for a particular type of product. This particular name is good for the dating and pickup niche, but I don't have a dating and pickup product at the moment. When I do, his name goes on it, and I start building his reputation.

I would be suprised (no matter what he say's) if Eban came up with that name because it had repeated sounds in it.

I would be more inclined to believe that he took the two most famous names in the 'relationship' niche, David Grey (Men are from mars, women are from venus) and Barbara De'Angelo (top US relationship coach) and came up with David De'Angelo, as well as percieved credibility (most people already think they have heard of him) it must help in the SE rankings.

Side note: David and Barbara were married then got divorced! Experts in relationship's sounds a bit like IM BS :-)

John

If I were you, I will go for Adriano as pen name. It's a South American name. And I think they are good body builders.

Go to fakenamegenerator.com and they will generate a name based on some settings you input

Why does it make sense that you would know that?

Generate a Random Name - Fake Name Generator

Use this. It also gives you other details like mothers maiden name, birthday and an email address you can register.

You should go with a super hero name like The Linkalator or something with 16th century flair like Flippadarmous.

For the first name, you take the name of your favorite childhood pet. For the last name, you take the name of the street you grew up on.

Some for me would be Shadow Brighton and Harrigan Orange.

Oh wait...

That's how you are supposed to come up with your porn name!

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I give another vote for fake name generator Like the variety there a lot.

Not a lawyer, and no one lets me play one on TV....

My understanding is that your author name is different than a business name. You can write under any name you choose (unless your state has different laws than most). What you must do is register your business name with the state.

The real interest of the legal types is this - if they decide to sue/incarcerate you for your business activities, they want to know where to find you. Business registration allows that.

Most of the gurus have a bunch of names on Ezine Articles, for instance, but they have a business name under which domains are registered, cash is accepted, etc.

I was told once that to get your pen name take you first ever Pets name and your mothers maiden name...... Oh wait sorry I just remembered thats not your pen name that your Porn star name.. Silly me

Do it how porn stars do take your middle name is your first name and the street you grew up on as your last name

Hi there,

We have same problem.I'll get back to your site and find out suggestions from the trends...

Has anyone tried the pornstar/first pet combo?

So many porn industry specialists here lol... I thought this was IM forum..

Thanx a lot guys for so many answers.

It depends if you want to be well known for it or you want to just get a random one because you're in so many markets you don't mind.

The dirt road I grew up on was, and I kid you not, Poverty Flats. Of course, we didn't know that until the city came along one day and slapped up a sign. About two weeks later the sign was stolen and no one replaced it. Which left me to wonder, was the sign stolen because it is an awesome street name, or was it one of the people on the street who did not like that name? My mom still lives here and we are living with her for now as her health is failing. The name has been changed.

Anyway, that is the real name of the street I grew up on. Much later I worked on Prosperity Avenue. So, at some point I simply have to write a book entitled "From Poverty Flats to Prosperity Avenue - and back again."

Be. Your. Self. People appreciate authenticity.

Re: Pen Names. How did you come up with one?

I think I'll go with Bic Papermate for my pen name.

Just go through a list of baby names and pick two you like the sound of. First name, last name.

- Sammy

I would choose the the first letters of my surname and first name then start from there.

So most of the people use "pen names" ? Anyone using their real name ?