A cyber pal pointed out yesterday there are some … erm… interesting names in E-Publand. Just check out some of them:
Rusty Wicks – This always conjures up rude images…
Rayne Forrest –
Skylar Grey – Skylar seems to be a popular name in E-Publand.
Honey Jans – Sounds like a euphemism for the vagina.
Stine Templar
Dahlia Rose- Flowery names really seem to be popular with e-authors.
Aurora Rose Lynn
Crymsyn R Hart
RaeLynn Blue
Raine Weaver
Red Garnier
Sable Grey
Feather Marosek
Roxi Romano
Skylar Sinclair
Rayvynne Sun
Laura Mazzuca Toops
Lizzie. T. Leaf
Fenner Jekyll
Petula Caesar
DaPharoah (Oh come on!)
Tysche Dwai – Dontcha just love it when authors pick easy names to spell?
Trixie Stilletto – This name always makes me want to giggle
Inna Spice – Wasn’t there a film called Inner Space?
Robin Slick (Eve, didn’t you write a story with some dude called ‘Rick Slick’? Hehe)
Johnny Peregrine
Rayne 2. Marzett (Is that somebody’s name or a typo?)
Brenna Lyons (hehe, I just put her name in this list cuz I felt like it)
Sabrina Luna – Hmmm…
Tuesday Morrigan
Eva Hore – *snicker*
Jade Twilight
Countess Celina
Chastity Lee
Cheryl Dragon
Candy Caine
Desiree Erotique – (Thanks Bam, I forgot Des for a minute there!)
Have you come across any other weird and wonderful names out there in E-Publand? Any from Printland?
Cookie
January 9
7:14 pm
Though I love all of her work, RED GARNIER reminds me of a hair color.
Dionne Galace
January 9
7:40 pm
I think you forgot Desiree Erotique.
Alessia Brio
January 9
8:09 pm
You have at least two on that list that aren’t pen names.
Shiloh Walker
January 9
9:31 pm
*G* I personally think Shiloh Walker is a great pen name.
😛
Barbara Sheridan
January 9
9:41 pm
E-publishing does seem to be populated with unusual names.
“Sultry Summers” never fails to make me shake my head and wonder why when I see it.
One word names seem to gaining in popularity. I’ve recently seen “Mya” and “Essence” and “Mima”
Shannon C.
January 9
9:58 pm
I’ve seen Essence, too. And you forgot Bianca D’Arc, Delilah Devlin and Ravyn Wilde (SP?)
Kayleigh Jamison
January 9
10:25 pm
I actually like Bianca D’Arc (as a name and as an author and as a person), and I think she’s got a clever slogan too. (“Come to the D’Arc side”)
Me, I went generic. And when I google myself and from time to time find announcements about the Kayleigh Jamison that is a high school athlete, I chuckle and wonder if she’s ever googled herself and been horrified.
PS
January 9
11:28 pm
My favorite is Paige Burns. The word play is simply clever and fun, but it still could be a real name. Maybe it is? Nomen est omen?
KateS
January 10
12:32 am
I personally like mine. 😉
Angelia Sparrow
January 10
12:33 am
Some people see mine and automatically assume it’s a psuedonym, esp. since my first novel was pirates.
It’s not.
I’ve heard some very silly ones, and some good ones. I like Emily Veinglory. It sounds old-fashioned, Victorian even, if not Dickensian.
My usual co-author is a pseudonym. Naomi Brooks is a very nice name.
Rayne Forrest
January 10
12:42 am
I asked my folks to help me pick a pen name. You know, name me once, now name me again.
Considering their weird sense of humor, I should have known better.
PS. Forrest really is one branch of my family. 🙂
Eve Vaughn
January 10
12:45 am
LOL, yes, I do have a character named Rick Slick, you know how I love giving my characters craptacular names.
As for the pen names, I wish I had the guts to come up with something so tongue in cheek, but I’m a chicken. If I could pick my pen name all over again, it would probably be between Rosey Nips and Honey Potts. They have kind of a James Bond feel to it. Remember Pussy Galore? That was my favorite Bond girl name.
Desiree Erotique
January 10
1:24 am
Yep, I’d be pretty put out if you forgot mine, Karen!
🙂
Desiree Erotique
January 10
1:33 am
This topic reminds me of an email I actually once got from a guy who claimed to be a writer and he mentioned he’d recently picked out a pen name for himself. I can’t recall the first name of it -Brad, Bill or something- but the last was “Balls-o-Fire”. That one took the cake for me, lol.
Shayne
January 10
2:36 am
I went with my first name and one of characters’ last name. I rather like it.
It looks so shiny and purdy in print. Heh.
And I rather like Red Garnier. It reminds of a blood red wine. Don’t know why.
Katrina Strauss
January 10
3:22 am
My pen name is fairly normal (other than the timing of my first publication in the wake of that one little hurricane…) compared to the legal first name and oddball surname my parents stuck me with at birth. It was 1970 and I suspect an intake of certain organic substances may have been involved. (Which would explain a lot about more than just my name.) So believe me, if I used my real name, which I shan’t dislose here, you would have listed me too along with “WTF???” With that being said, some of my friends are on this list, while others I’ve always thought sounded like pr0n star names. I say this in jest, though, so everyone can stay calm. 😛
Candice Gilmer
January 10
3:30 am
I have to admit, I’ve occasionally snickered at pen names as well….
Though I’m seeing one of those names is the same as a character in a novel I”m currently working on (yes, the name is in jest a little, but it works for the character), though the name is a variation of the spelling…
I have to admit, even with snickers, it’s not easy to come up with a pen name — I considered it myself, and decided my name was fine thus far. Especially since I hated everything I came up with.
I may change my mind in the future, but for now, I’m sticking with mine.
Jennifer McKenzie
January 10
4:51 am
Pen names are tough. For me, I used my real name for my less hot stuff and a pen name for the other. Both are pretty boring. The one thing about Honey Jans, Red Garnier and others is that they’re MEMORABLE.
In the case of Honey Jans, you’re in no doubt what she writes.
Ann Aguirre
January 10
4:58 am
I’m gonna guess some of the folks on that list used this thing.
Of course, when I used it just now it came up with Emmeline Dunne, which is a pretty nice pen name for a historical romance author.
But if you keep playing, it’ll come up with something wacky. Now I’m Mariposa Marque (and I should wear Black vinyl bra, mini-skirt and a machine gun for a leg to my next author appearance. Good times.)
Misa
January 10
5:22 am
I really like a new author to the scene (newish) Sapphire Blue. I really enjoy her work to boot.
Dawn
January 10
9:45 am
I haven’t got any suggestions of my own (although I’ve always said that if I wrote a Mills & Boon, the hero would be called Rock Hard).
Why do these strike me as ghetto-tastic?
DaPharoah
Tysche Dwai
Inna Spice – Must be a Cockney writer.
Anonymous
January 10
10:21 am
No offense and I’ve never read anything she has written but the name Veinglory makes me cringe. I think of stripping veins and other painful procedures every time I see it.
I also used to have a terrible time with William Devane– everytime I heard it I thought of deveining shrimp.
Bernita
January 10
2:09 pm
Raine Weaver is a beautiful name.
Shiloh Walker
January 10
2:10 pm
Daggone it, Ann. Did you HAVE to post that link?
Now I’m gonna have nightmares.
The name they gave me wasn’t too bad… Katy Dunne (although I still like Shiloh better *G*)
But the signing apparel? …shudder… nightmares, I’m telling you.
A liger fursuit, complete with giant erect penis with a barb at the end and dead chicken to masturbate over
RobinSlick
January 10
2:53 pm
Ha! This is what I get for doing a vanity google search this morning…I find my name here.
Sadly, Karen, Robin Slick is my real name. Blame my husband, what can I tell you. Eve, sorry you think the name Rick Slick is craptacular (heh)…I named my son Eric Slick which is kind of like that but, shameless plug coming, it’s worked out all right for him (www.ericslick.com; http://www.adrianbelew.net).
So while I was here this morning, I did some reading and found myself laughing my ass off. I love a little snark with my morning coffee and I’m a big believer in free speech so nothing I read here offended me even if I am with a publisher you don’t exactly admire. The AA author interviews were extremely interesting and well written but what made me spit my coffee out laughing was the RT Kathryn F**k letter about suicidal writers. Oh my God, do I have a story for you about the high priestesses at RT…but I guess I’d better not piss off anyone and stay quiet, right? Unless of course you think otherwise…
Eve Vaughn
January 10
5:32 pm
Robin, I love craptacular! And I like the name Eric.
Would you believe Rick Slick is based off off of a real person I went to highschool with. His name was Richard, but he went by Dick. His last name was Quick. He had a sister named Anita who taught at the school. Last name Cox. I couldn’t make something like this up if I tried.
Anonymous
January 10
5:35 pm
My first and middle name, combined with my hubby’s last name…sounds like it belongs to a French hooker.
Hence, I took a pen name. (At the moment I write non-erotic historicals, so it was a biz move. LOL)
May
January 10
6:06 pm
I really shouldn’t, but KA M’Lady and DJ Manly?
RobinSlick
January 10
6:31 pm
Hi, Eve – that is too funny. The name that cracks me up the most, though, is the race car driver – Dick Trickle. I mean, come on. What were his parents thinking? And why doesn’t he just call himself Richie instead? (but then again, I am assuming his real name is “Richard”, for all I know maybe his real name is Dick. Oh God.)
For some unknown reason, I thought about writing a satire piece with a hero named Cliff Rigid..it just kind of, um, came to me and made me laugh. It’s on the to-do list.
Johnny
January 10
7:12 pm
Funny what you find when you google your own pen name!!!! How did I come up with Johnny Peregrine? Well having ADD I looked up words that meant “wandering” since that is what my mind does. thus, Peregrine. As far as Johnny goes, I always wanted to be the P.I. in some black in white flick where The Dame comes into my office and asks “How ya doin’, Johnny?”
So that is how I go on this list…. LOL
Cherry
January 10
7:28 pm
My mom took it upon herself to give me a pornstar name for some reason. I’d be crazy to change it if I ever get published. *g*
MERLIN
January 10
9:50 pm
I prefer to write under my real name of Murgatroyd Molestrangler.
Merlin is – of course – a pseudonym.
M.
Emily Veinglory
January 10
11:10 pm
I can’t believe I didn’t make the list! What do I have to do, change my middle name to ‘throbbng’?
Emily Veinglory
January 10
11:11 pm
Oops. There is no ‘I’ in throbbing, it seems.
Devon
January 10
11:56 pm
Trixie Stiletto is my all-time favorite. I just love it. I heard she was good, too.
Jackie L.
January 11
3:21 am
I used to work with a guy whose first name was very old-fashioned, so he went by his middle name: a derivative of Michael. Last name: Hunt. Yep,you got it: Mike Hunt.
Fenner Jekyll
January 14
8:56 am
Hermione Gingold was once asked in an interview whether that was her real name, and she said, “Oh, come on – of course it is. Who’d *choose* to be called Hermione Gingold?”
Same with me. Though I can at least claim to be descended from the Victorian garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.
Supaman
January 27
12:36 am
It is a name and not a typo…too funny
Karen Scott
January 27
12:47 am
Is that your real name?
Supaman
January 28
8:49 pm
Yes it is my real name…
D.J. Manly
February 24
5:47 am
D.J. is actually the initials of my name…and Manly..well I added a letter or two but at least its memorable…lol…
Lizzie
March 25
9:26 pm
Wow, glad I reached a point on the current WIP where I needed a break and decided to google my name for grins. What a surprise to find it on such a fun list. Thanks for including me! There is a story behind the name and sad to say, the person who caused Lizzie to come into being is no longer with us.
Lizzie T. Leaf