{"id":1235,"date":"2010-09-16T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:09:24","slug":"anakin-winchester-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/anakin-winchester-where-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Anakin Winchester, where are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/l-userpic.livejournal.com\/92139794\/16415494\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"76\" \/>Is it just me, or are pen names of late getting a bit too&#8230; well, fanciful and possibly even ridiculous?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not talking about a name like Cat Grant, \u00a0which pairs a &#8220;personal&#8221; element or interest of the author with a standard everyday surname; or Jen Bluekissed, which combines a simple first name with a play on the author&#8217;s real surname. \u00a0(Hopefully they won&#8217;t mind me using them as examples&#8230;) But say we had &#8220;Cat Bluekissed,&#8221; \u00a0that would be a bit over the top, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather not name real names, but I&#8217;m starting to see names where neither word is even remotely a name or they are\u00a0<em>both<\/em>taken from something quite obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Do you judge an author on their pen name at all? Does a name indicating the author enjoys something\u00a0<em>you <\/em>also like pique your interest? Or might you shun a too-fanciful name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or are pen names of late getting a bit too&#8230; well, fanciful and possibly even ridiculous? I&#8217;m not talking about a name like Cat Grant, \u00a0which pairs a &#8220;personal&#8221; element or interest of the author with a standard everyday surname; or Jen Bluekissed, which combines a simple first name with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,44,909],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pen-names","tag-publishing","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-jV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}