"The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl are memoirs of a former London call girl written by Dr. Brooke Magnanti, under the pseudonym ""Belle de Jour"". From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a web diary. The blogs were then published into the book, in which Belle elaborates on the diary entries and tells of how she became a Call Girl. ""The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl"" begins with Belle de Jour introducing herself as"
"published as ""The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl"" in 2005 and ""The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl"" in 2006. Her first two books were UK top 10 best-sellers in the nonfiction hardback and nonfiction paperback lists. In 2007 Belle's blogs and books were adapted into a television programme, ""Secret Diary of a Call Girl"" starring Billie Piper as Belle, with the real name Hannah Baxter. In November 2009, fearing her real identity was about to come out, Magnanti revealed her real name and occupation as a child health scientist. Born in the United States to an"
"him to see if anyone googled the two names. In 2009 he identified IP addresses originating from Associated Newspapers that had accessed the page at which point he contacted Magnanti to alert her. Around the same time tabloid reporters had been escorted from the hospital where she worked for breaking into her office. On 15 November 2009, ""The Sunday Times"" revealed in an interview that the author's real name is Brooke Magnanti, who was 34 years of age at the time. ""The Guardian""s Paul Gallagher described it as the revelation of ""one of the best kept literary secrets of the"
"as a judge for ""Fleeting Magazine""'s 2012 Six-Word Short Story Prize. She was interviewed on ""Hardtalk"" on the BBC in October. Since 2012 she has been contributing blogger to ""The Daily Telegraph"". Magnanti's PhD thesis, awarded from the University of Sheffield Department of Forensic Pathology, was entitled ""Macrobioinformatics: the application of informatics methods to records of human remains"". It was submitted in September 2003 and the degree was awarded in 2004. After moving to London and while blogging as ""Belle de Jour"" she also worked as a computer programmer in cheminformatics at InforSense. She blogged about this career at Cosmas."
"decade"". ""The Daily Telegraph""s Stephen Adams said it had been ""the new millennium's equivalent of the 1980s' search for the golden hare"". Such was the nature of the secret that Magnanti's colleagues did not know until one month before she went public, her publishers had been unaware of her true identity until the previous week and her parents found out on that weekend. After signing her first book deal and starting writing articles for newspapers, only two other people were aware of her identity, her agent Patrick Walsh and her accountant, who handled the financial transactions via a shell corporation."
"Publishing seven novels under the pseudonym Diana Blayne (her son's name). In 1984, she sold a novel by Silhouette Books under the pseudonym Katy Currie. She also used her married name, Susan Kyle, from 1988 to 1995 to sell seven romance novels to Warner Books. Now, she only used her most popular pseudonym Diana Palmer and writes for three New York publishing houses: Mira Books (mainstream romances), Silhouette Books (contemporary series romances), and Fawcett Books (historical romances). She has over 150 books in print, more of them translated and published around the world. Her novel ""Diamond Girl"" was made into"
"was published in late February or early March 1893 by a small printing shop that usually printed medical books and religious tracts. The typewritten title page for the Library of Congress copyright application read simply: ""A Girl of the Streets, / A Story of New York. / —By—/Stephen Crane."" The name ""Maggie"" was added to the title later. Crane used the pseudonym ""Johnston Smith"" for the novel's initial publication, later telling friend and artist Corwin Knapp Linson that the ""nom de plume"" was the ""commonest name I could think of. I had an editor friend named Johnson, and put in"
"lasting togetherness picks up an almost existential heft."" She writes in ""Playing the Game"" ""it's not all about the sex - never has been - it's about the heart of darkness."" Magnanti's publisher, Orion Books, printed her first two books as part of its ""Non Fiction/Memoir"" line. Her third book was classified as fiction and represents a fictional continuation from the first two. Her books have been published in the UK, US, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, and China. In 2016 her first thriller ""The Turning Tide"" was published in the UK. It"
"but also uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray, Alan Savage and Nicholas Grant. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the pen name Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House. He specialized in series and sagas, and continues to write in the 21st century."
"as a £300-an-hour prostitute called Taro for a London escort agency from 2003, after submitting her PhD thesis. She did so due to lack of funds before her ""viva voce"" at the University of Sheffield in 2003 and is estimated to have earned more than £100,000 in that period. She had previously been a science blogger using her real name and started blogging about sex work under a pseudonym. ""Diary of a London Call Girl"" was voted Blog of the Year by ""The Guardian"" newspaper in 2003. Awards judge Bruce Sterling called it ""Archly transgressive, anonymous hooker is definitely manipulating"
"online via ""Scribd"". Acosta and her agent had previously sent the work out to various publishers, who had not shown any true interest in the work. After the work was published online the book became the top ranked YA book on the site and Acosta received a book deal through Tor Books. Marta Acosta Marta Acosta is an American author of young adult, urban fantasy, and chick-lit fiction, known for her ""Casa Dracula"" series and for her 2013 book ""The She-Hulk Diaries"". Acosta has also written under the pen name of Grace Coopersmith for her 2010 book ""Nancy's Theory of"
"the probable author as Neapolitan professor Marcella Marmo, who studied in Pisa from 1964 to 1966. Both Marmo and the publisher deny Santagata's identification. In October 2016, investigative reporter Claudio Gatti published an article jointly in ""Il Sole 24 Ore"" and ""Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"", that relied on financial records related to real estate transactions and royalties payments to draw the conclusion that , a Rome-based translator, is the real author behind the Ferrante pseudonym. Gatti's article was criticized by many in the literary world as a violation of privacy, though Gatti contends that the anonymity was intended to increase profits,"
"series of books. In 1987 she wrote the Casualty novelization ""Megan's Story"" under the name Laura Waring, ""Virgo: Snake Inside"" for a series of twelve young-adult books called ""Horrorscopes"" (1995) under the house pseudonym of Maria Palmer (although it was later reissued under her own name), and was a contributing author to Ben M. Baglio's ""Dolphin Diaries"" (2000–2002), a young-adult series of books, writing the first 8 books in the series, which were published as by Ben M. Baglio in the US and as by Lucy Daniels in the UK. In addition to fiction, Tuttle has written non-fiction, including the"
"television series loosely based on the first book was in development with Channel 4 in the UK, but eventually aired on ITV2 as ""Secret Diary of a Call Girl"". The first series aired from 27 September 2007 to 15 November 2007 starring Billie Piper as Hannah Baxter (Belle), and later shown in the US on Showtime. Magnanti met Piper in the course of preparing for the role but maintained her pseudonymity. A half-hour TV programme covering a meeting and conversation between the two was broadcast on ITV2 on 25 January 2010. The second series commenced broadcasting in the UK on"
"an atrocity and claiming that it advocated rape and racism. Jennifer Armintrout Jennifer Armintrout (born July 11, 1980) is an American author best known for a series of urban fantasy novels known as the ""Blood Ties"" series, published by Mira Books. The books chronicle the life of Dr. Carrie Ames, an emergency room doctor who must adapt to life as a vampire after being attacked by one of her patients. Armintrout's ""Blood Ties"" series has been published in five countries, with the first volume making USA Today's top 150 book list. Armintrout also publishes erotica under the pseudonym Abigail Barnette."
"were written in, for example ""Novembre"" (November). An adaption was created for ITV2 in 2007 called ""Secret Diary of a Call Girl"". The show stars Billie Piper as Belle but also shows her private life and her personal struggles; in the adaptation her real name is Hannah Baxter. The show has since been aired in America by Showtime. Some of the characters in ""Secret Diary of a Call Girl"" have different personalities from their literary counterparts. N is described as ""the hub of all gossip"", whereas Ben in ""Secret Diary of a Call Girl"" does not seem to share this"
"male name seemed like good camouflage. I had the feeling that a man would slip by less observed. I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation."" Her first published short story was ""Birth of a Salesman"" in the March 1968 issue of ""Analog Science Fact & Fiction"", edited by John W. Campbell. Three more followed that year in ""If"" and ""Fantastic"". Other pen names that she used included ""Alice Hastings Bradley"", ""Major Alice Davey"", ""Alli B. Sheldon"", ""Dr. Alice B. Sheldon"", ""Raccona Sheldon"", and ""Alli"". The pseudonym was successfully maintained until"
"the text into a novel and published it, with her agreement: they wrote the final book ending, gave the author the pseudonym ‘Dora Rosetti’ and chose the book title, ""Her Lover"". (In Greek, the book title makes the gender of the two lovers explicit, hence announcing its subject matter). The book caused a scandal in its time due to its taboo topic of lesbian love between women. It also inadvertently ‘photographed’ the real-life persons behind the two central characters of the novel, and rendered them recognisable to society. Due to careless editing, the book included enough biographical detail for the"
"Blanche Descartes Blanche Descartes was a collaborative pseudonym used by the English mathematicians R. Leonard Brooks, Arthur Harold Stone, Cedric Smith, and W. T. Tutte. The four mathematicians met in 1935 as undergraduate students at Trinity College, Cambridge, where they joined the Trinity Mathematical Society and began meeting together to work on mathematical problems. The pseudonym originated by combining the initials of the mathematicians' given names (Bill, Leonard, Arthur, and Cedric) to form ""BLAC"". This was extended to ""BLAnChe"". The surname ""Descartes"" was chosen as a play on the common phrase ""carte blanche"". Over 30 works were published under the"
"Marta Acosta Marta Acosta is an American author of young adult, urban fantasy, and chick-lit fiction, known for her ""Casa Dracula"" series and for her 2013 book ""The She-Hulk Diaries"". Acosta has also written under the pen name of Grace Coopersmith for her 2010 book ""Nancy's Theory of Style"", which is based on a supporting character from her ""Casa Dracula"" series. Acosta has written for the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" and ""Contra Costa Times"" as a freelancer and attended Stanford University. She met with some difficulty when trying to publish her work, as some publishers wanted her to write more in"
"in May 2008, using her Sarah McKerrigan pseudonym. In 2010, Campbell started writing under a new pseudonym, Kira Morgan, for Hachette Book Group USA. Her romance novel, ""Captured By Desire"", is set in Mary, Queen of Scots-era Scotland, and was released August 2010, followed by ""Seduced by Destiny"" in March 2011. Beginning in 2012, she returned to writing under her real name of Glynnis Campbell, releasing her first self-published eBook Scottish historical romance novel ""Passion's Exile"", followed by ""The Shipwreck"", ""The Outcast"", ""Native Gold"", ""Native Wolf"", and ""The Handfasting"". She became a ""USA Today"" bestselling author with her book in"
"with ""The Catholic Herald"", the author of the book stated that it is not a rumour, but first-hand information from a priest who read the report. A similar view to ""The Catholic Herald"" was taken by the ""Catholic World Report"". To conceal his identity, the author of the book decided to write under the pseudonym Marcantonio Colonna, an Italian nobleman who fought at the Battle of Lepanto. The author described himself as a historian who was educated at the University of Oxford, but is now living in Rome. ""Colonna"" said the reason he chose to keep his actual name private"
"about cultural divides in a [fictional African country] when she was approached by London’s ""The Independent"" newspaper to write a column as herself about single life in London. Fielding rejected this idea as too embarrassing and exposing and offered instead to create an imaginary, exaggerated, comic character. Writing anonymously, she felt able to be honest about the preoccupations of single women in their thirties. It quickly acquired a following, her identity was revealed and her publishers asked her to replace her novel about the Caribbean by a novel on ""Bridget Jones’s Diary"". The hardback was published in 1996 to good"
"the book in 1844 under the pseudonym ""Lieutenant Murray"". It quickly became popular, selling 80,000 copies at twenty-five cents each in just a few months: Sixteen years after its initial publication, an 1860 ad by publisher Frederic Brady said ""Fanny Campbell, the heroine, is one of the most interesting characters ever delineated, and her exploits surpass in boldness and brilliancy the most gallant exploits ever performed. This book is acknowledged by all who have read it to be the very best romantic history of the stirring incidents of our Revolutionary War ever written."" Literary critic Barbara Cutter described ""Fanny Campbell"""
"networks RAI and TIMvision, were aired at the Venice Film Festival. HBO started airing the complete eight episode miniseries, focusing on the first book in the ""The Neapolitan Novels"", in November 2018. Elena Ferrante Elena Ferrante () is a pseudonymous Italian novelist, who has said that she was born in 1943 in Naples . Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of ""Neapolitan Novels"" are among her best known works. ""Time"" magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016. Ferrante is the name used by the author of"
"and United States"". However, the Italian periodical ""La Stampa"" reveals significantly more critical comments recorded by the journalist Mirella Serri, who believes that the author of ""Maîtresse Françoise"" considers herself to be the embodiment of ""an outstanding artist belonging to a scarce and special breed: ""i.e."" the ""mystics"" of sex"". Maîtresse Françoise Maîtresse Françoise (pen name Annick Foucault) is a publicly known dominatrix in Paris, France. Her book was published in France by publisher Éditions Gallimard. It is the autobiographical account of the life of a woman revealing what damage can bring one to choose sexual practices that which others"
"acceptable self."" The memoir was dramatised by the BBC (and PBS in North America) in 1990, starring Janet McTeer as Vita, and Cathryn Harrison as Violet. The series won four BAFTAs. Sackville-West's novel ""Challenge"" (1923) also bears witness to her affair with Keppel: Sackville-West and Keppel had started writing this book as a collaborative endeavour. It was published in America but banned in the UK until 1974. The male character's name, Julian, had been Sackville-West's nickname when passing as a man. ""Challenge"" (first entitled ""Rebellion"", then ""Enchantment"", then ""Vanity"" and at some point ""Foam""), is a ""roman à clef"" with"
"death are unknown, and further research is needed. Mary Shelley refers to her just once in her own correspondence. See: Newly Uncovered Letters and Poems by Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley: Betty T Bennett, Keats-Shelley Journal Vol 46, (1997) pp 51–74. ""Pseudonymity, Passing, and Queer Biography: The Case of Mary Diana Dods"", Geraldine Friedman Eliza Rennie Eliza Rennie or Mrs. Eliza Walker is a published author, though her biography remains somewhat of a mystery. She was possibly born on 17 May 1813, although this is uncertain and unproven. Her death date was sometime after 30 March 1869, when she was awarded £25"
"the first dime novel; ""Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation ""Children"""" (1861), expressing abolitionist sentiments; ""The Dead Letter"" (1866), the first full-length American work of crime fiction; ""The Figure Eight"" (1869); ""A Bad Boy's Diary"" (1880); and ""The Blunders of a Bashful Man"" (1881). She also wrote under the names Corinne Cushman, Eleanor Lee Edwards, Metta Fuller, Walter T. Gray, Mrs. Orrin James, Rose Kennedy, Louis LeGrand, Mrs. Mark Peabody, The Singing Sybil, Mrs. Henry Thomas. Metta Victoria Fuller Victor Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (née Fuller; March 2, 1831 – June 26, 1885), who used the nom de plume Seeley Regester"
"Pamela Brooks Pamela Brooks (born 11 February 1966 in Essex, England) is a British writer of non-fiction books, she also writes romance novels under the pseudonym of Kate Hardy, and erotic novels as Lucinda Chester, Evelyn D'Arcy, Chelsea Miller and Pamela Rochford. Her novels won two Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 2008, ""Breakfast at Giovanni's"", and in 2014, ""Bound by a Baby"". Pamela Brooks was born in Essex, England, UK. At university, she specialized Old English and Thomas Hardy. She married Gerard ""Gerry"", and installed in Norwich, Norfolk, where she sold her first erotic"
"Price of Salt"". The book was originally published under the pseudonym ""Claire Morgan"" by Coward-McCann after Highsmith's publisher Harper & Brothers rejected it. In 1990, Highsmith agreed to republish with Bloomsbury Publishing under her own name, and retitled it ""Carol"". It had been inspired by an encounter in 1948 between Highsmith and a blonde woman wearing a mink coat, Mrs. E.R. Senn (Kathleen Wiggins Senn), whilst she was working as a Christmas season salesgirl at the toy department of Bloomingdale's in New York. That evening she wrote an eight-page outline, which she developed some weeks later and had completed by"
"Murphy, and Smollett were all involved in the dispute, not all of them used their actual names; instead, many preferred to use pseudonyms along with attacks under their own name: Fielding wrote as ""Sir Alexander Drawcansir""; Hill wrote as ""The Inspector""; Thornton wrote as ""Madam Roxanna""; and Smart wrote as ""Mrs. Mary Midnight"". It was under these pseudonyms that various authors soon responded to Fielding's attacks and to Fielding's plan for a ""Universal Register Office"", a planned center of advertisement of jobs, goods for sale, and other items. If this was not enough, Fielding started a dispute, just a few"
"until 1893. She decided to publish it monthly so she could update it more frequently than her other guides. Using the pseudonym ""L.M.H."", She initially wrote most of the articles in the paper. She often found her work exhausting, periodically suffered from poor health that forced her to turn some of the operations over to friends. In 1884 she left England for an extended vacation in order to rehabilitate after a period of poor health. She also hired a personal assistant to help respond to letters that she received. She employed Emily James as her personal secretary until 1890. In"