I don’t have one. Traditionally, that is. In my normal every day “non-erotica” writing life, I’m a stay-at-home-step-dad. It allows me to work toward a career as a novelist. In fact, L. McKnight isn’t even a real name. My real name has three collections of poetry and short stories and two full length novels attributed to it. All being met with various levels of success. Small self-publishing being the route that I had chosen early on. Maybe I’ll reveal that later. Who knows.
I started writing erotica as a “side hustle”, right? Because that’s a thing people do? I was making decent enough money with the other books, but maybe I could supplement the household’s income with a very thousand words here and there writing in a genre I had never tried before.
There isn’t a shame connected to the pen name, no real reason or secret behind creating one. Other than of course, who doesn’t like the sound of hiding in plain sight, exposing the things that make you tick. It’s all fun and games. As time goes by, I’ll probably loosen up a little bit with certain things, we’ll see which way the wind blows.
As for now, my current plan, the goal as it were, is to continue on writing and publishing through Amazon. Weekly, ideally.
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