Happy release day to Nalini Singh for her latest release Blaze of Memory! And don’t forget Nalini also has an urban fantasy coming up in February, Archangel’s Kiss, which got me thinking about authors using one pen name for more than one genre (Ilona’s wonderfully unclassifiable On the Edge comes to mind too. ;) ). Sometimes using a different pen name isn’t up to the author…the author sells a new series to a different publisher and the publisher wants her to take on a new pen name. At least that seems to have been the case in the past. If an author moved from writing historical romance to say…contemporary romance or romantic suspense, she’d change her pen name, but lately I’m seeing an interesting trend. Authors are selling across several genres and they’re keeping the same pen name, even when they sell young adult.

I wonder if this trend has more to do with author name popularity or if it has to do with the genres beginning to blend more and more. Click HERE to read more.