: Re: Is it possible to self-publish with a pseudonym but still be approachable for offers? I'm currently writing a book and intend to sell it to make some money on the side. Now I don't have any

@Phylliss352

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There will be a link back to you for two reasons. Your payment to whatever organisation you use to 'self publish' and their payments to you generated from any sales of your book. If it does become the focus of a film or TV series then we can assume that it has also had at least a few sales in book form.

This is an assumption but I would suspect that the self publishing organisation would have a reference to themselves inside the front cover of the book. I mean you normally get the 'published by' information where the copyright and ISBN information is printed.

Should it become a hit and large organisation wanted the rights then I think they have large enough legal and marketing departments and existing networks into publishing houses to at least try and track you down through that link. It's where I'd start as a complete novice.

I'm investigation what would happen for any royalties accrued by your book in terms of library lending and reproduction so I will be editing this to include that later. At present it's my belief that you may just miss out on those if you can't be easily tracked down.

As others have mention I think creating some social media or contact information for your pseudonym would be a good idea if for no other reason than allowing your readers to contact you.

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Having spoken to someone in the industry my answer is correct. They would go through the publisher who may not divulge your identity but would pass the contact request along to you. Now in 'real life' you can lose that link if perhaps the request was made long after the book stopped selling and the publishing house have lost contact with you because perhaps you moved and never told them.

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