In case you're reading this without having ever interacted with me in the last year or so, I guess I'll start by saying that I'm a fan of Kate Griffin. She wrote the Matthew Swift/ Magicals Anonymous books that I keep squeeing over.
Another important fact about me is that I'm vastly irritated by the plethora of pseudonyms that authors seem to collect around themselves these days.
So when I saw this:
http://www.kategriffin.net/2014/04/22/the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august/
I felt (a) pleased to have a new book to track down, but
(b) quite irritated because it had been in freaking Netgalley recently and I considered reading it, but ended up deciding that because the author was an unknown quantity, (1) I didn't like time-travel enough to chance it, and (2) it had high risk of becoming a romance. So I didn't request. Grr.
But hey, Kate Griffin/Claire North/Catherine Webb/Probably Someone Else As Well has a new book out!
Dear Orbit Books,
Since you seem quite ready to have your authors construct an entire retinue of nom de plumes, could you please, please do a bit of A/B testing to figure out if it even has the positive effect you seem to think it has? Because it seems to me that knowledge of an author produces a positive bias, not a negative one. And you certainly have the experimental subjects to actually check.
Sincerely,
An increasingly frazzled reader attempting to keep track of pen-names.