[ SECRET POST #2972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2972 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 072 secrets from Secret Submission Post #425.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/y28QhX8.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Ah so this was the secret you wanted to make in the last thread.

[(Anonymous)]

can't blame you, Roberts are generally assholes.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought they were referring to 'Galbraith'.
As far as the Roberts I know go, they don't have a particularly high arsehole-to-cool person ratio.

[(Anonymous)]

Is Galbraith a common name?

[(Anonymous)]

Robert is, so chances are that everyone knows at least one awesome Robert.

[diet_poison]

Hey, I know some really cool Roberts.

[(Anonymous)]

then they're not real Roberts. Real Roberts are never cool.

Maybe the Roberts you know are Roboberts imitating human Roberts.

[(Anonymous)]

So, only the first The Dread Pirate Roberts is a real Roberts.

[(Anonymous)]

Why is she even still using that name? Everyone knows it's her now.

[othellia]

Consistency? Plus I'm sure there are casual fans who don't follow stuff online and wouldn't realize it was her unless her name was on the cover.

Just like Nora Roberts and JD Robb are the same person and people have known that for forever, but she still has a lot of fans that don't know the one is the other.

[(Anonymous)]

It's probably what the publisher wants.

I know there are some differences in this case, but a lot of the time, a publisher will insist that an author adopt a different penname if he or she writes something in a different genre. So, for example, Daniel Abraham writes under three names: one for fantasy, one for sci-fi, and one for YA, and that's because Orbit wanted him to.

It's a marketing thing. The logic is that people who, say, hate fantasy but love mystery might be put off a mystery novel that's written by an author known for writing fantasy. It sounds stupid, but people really do make those kind of associations. It's like how they had to market the original 'Die Hard' very, very carefully because when they first tested the trailers, people laughed -- they couldn't buy Bruce Willis as an action hero since they only knew him from Moonlighting.

[dinogrrl]

I totally get that. There's a name I have that same sort of gut reaction to.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: JK Rowling and the cover of “The Cuckoo’s Calling.”

Text: Even though I know it’s just a penname, and I’ve nothing against JKR, I’m wary of reading the Galbraith books due to my old job. We had a regular with the same name who was a total arse-hat, and I can’t shake the association.