: Re: Can I use my legal name as the protagonist if I'm pitching my book to traditional publishers under a pen name? Can I use my legal name as the protagonist if I'm pitching my book to traditional

There's nothing stopping you : Gene Brewer did it in the K-PAX series, but a publisher - and particularly a traditional publisher - is likely to want to know why you did that.

If there's a good reason, rejection is less likely. But if the reason is something like "that way it looks like the protagonist really wrote this and so all these things must have really happened", it could just end up looking like a cheap gimmick (I'm looking at you, Brewer...).

You're right to think that a publisher might question this. It's worth making sure you have a good answer.

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