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Offline blgarver

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Re: Writing under a different name
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2006, 05:01:26 PM »
I hate my name.

Mainly because there is at least one other Brandon within fifty feet of me, no matter where I go.  Growin up, in a town of 325 people, with a high school of 70 students total...there were at least three other Brandons I can remember off the top of my head.  And there were several more in grade school.

So, I write under B.L. Garver.  And otherwise, I insist on being called by my last name.  I'd prefer to stand aside from the usual rif-raf if at all possible. 

Probably a little arrogant of me, but what aspiring writer wants to blend in witht he crowd?
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Re: Writing under a different name
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2006, 07:41:07 PM »
If anything of mine were to see print, I'll almost certainly use a pen-name, because in my day-job I run two reasonably sized online bioinformatics databases, I've been in this line of work for several years, and anyone googling on my real name will be able to find out quite a bit more about me than I'm entirely happy making available to complete strangers.
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Re: Writing under a different name
« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2006, 11:30:26 PM »
If anything of mine were to see print, I'll almost certainly use a pen-name, because in my day-job I run two reasonably sized online bioinformatics databases, I've been in this line of work for several years, and anyone googling on my real name will be able to find out quite a bit more about me than I'm entirely happy making available to complete strangers.

I have similar issues...  a google of my full name brings up a great deal of information about me, largely because I'm a research biologist.  I'm not sure I'd ever want the general public to be able to pull up my science publication history, linked to my work history and previous phone numbers, through google.
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