Mark wrote:
> I'm always curious how writers
> choose the pen names they do. So
> now that yours is out in the
> open, where'd Richard Aleas come
> from?
It's an anagram of my real name, "Charles Ardai"; the last
name starts with the same letter as "Ardai," so books
published under the two names can be shelved near each other;
and of course it's pronounced "Alias," which is fun.
As for why I chose to publish LITTLE GIRL LOST under a
pseudonym in the first place, it's a tip of the hat to the
great pulp tradition. I also found it liberating. When I
write under my own name, I find I agonize over every
sentence, and part of the point of writing a pulp novel was
to race from start to finish in a white-hot, bill-collector-
at-the-door fury, just like in the old penny-a-word days.
Creating what my partner, Max Phillips, calls a "nom de pulp"
helped get me into the right mindset.
--Charles
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