… But your "name" might be. For awhile, the books I wrote were credited as “created by” the real author — a woman who used to work for the publishing company and had written the first ten books — but “written” by a made-up name the editorial team had dreamed up. Not only had they created a fake name for me, but they had another ghostwriter for another series use it as well, for her books. One time, that writer and I met up for brunch, and we both discovered that we had a bad habit of giving out that name to men we’d met at bars on random nights out. Needless to say, that anonymous and made-up author had a lot more fun than either of us did!