how to approach social media and other important considerations for using a pen name.

1. How Does Using Pen Name Affects Your
Publishing Accounts

2. Are You A Self-published Author?
• Choose one or more
name name/s
•create an account in
Amazon.com
• Amazon’s Kindle Platform

3. Why and When to Use A Pen Name?
• A “pen name” or pseudonym
• assumed name that many writers choose to
• Why?
• To safeguard their real identity.
• To not be restricted by using their real name.
• To distinguish between the different kinds of books they write.

4. How Can A Pen Name Help You?
• To safeguard their real
identity.
• To not be restricted by using
their real name.
• To distinguish between the
different kinds of books they
write.

5. Pen Name and Social Media
• Facebook
• You can set up single pages to promote your books using each one
of your pen names.
• Twitter
• It’s easy to set up several twitter accounts for each of your pen
names so you can keep your book promotions separate.
• Goodreads
• If you want to promote using different pen names, you’ll have to
set up several individual accounts using different emails.