From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   Nicky  wrote:   
      
   > > If I have two "income streams" that aren't actually making money...   
   >   
   > It depends how different it is I guess. I mean I write YA historical( ish)   
   > fantasy and I've done a couple of chick lit books. I'm working on a   
   > thriller and the book I've been talking about here is a kid's horror   
   > novel and there is no real overlap in audience between them.   
      
   Yeah, that's quite a span.   
      
      
   > It wouldn't be useful to me to market them under the same name.   
      
   ...   
   Not in traditional pubishing, no.   
      
   But if you decided to self-publish stuff, I think it woud be useful to   
   you to pick one of your previously used names instead of a new one, even   
   if there was no apparent cross over appeal.   
      
   Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I think.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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