Editing Pen name (section)

===Collective names===
A '''collective name''', also known as a '''house name''', is one pen name for works published by the same publishing house even though more than one author may have contributed to the series. Novellas and paperback books credited to [[Maxwell Grant]], featuring the adventures of [[The Shadow (character)|The Shadow]], were written largely by [[Walter B. Gibson]] but other writers contributed to the series. The erotic-adventures [[Slocum (westerns)|Slocum]] series of westerns were all credited to Jake Logan, but many different authors wrote the books. 

In some cases, the first books in a series were written by one writer but subsequent books were written by [[ghostwriter]]s. For instance, [[Leslie Charteris]] wrote the early volumes of ''[[Simon Templar|The Saint]]'' adventure series, but he supervised and edited the works of ghostwriters for the remainder of the series. Similarly, ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' mystery books are published as though they were written by [[Carolyn Keene]], ''[[The Hardy Boys]]'' books are published as the work of [[Franklin W. Dixon]], and ''[[The Bobbsey Twins]]'' series are credited to [[Laura Lee Hope]], although numerous authors have been involved in each series. [[Erin Hunter]], the author of the ''[[Warriors (novel series)|Warriors]]'' novel series, is a collective pen name used by authors [[Kate Cary]], [[Cherith Baldry]], [[Tui T. Sutherland]], and the editor [[Victoria Holmes]].

Collaborative authors may also have their works published under a single pen name. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee published their mystery novels and stories under the pen name [[Ellery Queen]], which was also used to publish the work of several ghostwriters they commissioned. The writers of ''[[Atlanta Nights]]'', a deliberately bad book intended to embarrass the publishing firm [[PublishAmerica]],{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} used the pen name Travis Tea. Additionally, the credited author of ''[[The Expanse (novel series)|The Expanse]]'', [[James S. A. Corey]], is an amalgam of the middle names of collaborating writers [[Daniel Abraham (author)|Daniel Abraham]] and [[Ty Franck]] respectively, while S. A. is the initials of Abraham's daughter. Sometimes multiple authors will write related books under the same pseudonym; examples include [[T. H. Lain]] in fiction.<ref name="Dummies">{{cite book|last1=Slavicsek|first1=Bill|authorlink=Bill Slavicsek|first2=Rich|last2=Baker|authorlink2=Richard Baker (game designer)|first3=Jeff|last3=Grubb|authorlink3=Jeff Grubb |title=Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies|publisher=For Dummies|year=2006|pages=373|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNU7E01MCEgC&q=dragonlance&pg=PA373|accessdate=2009-02-12 | isbn=978-0-7645-8459-6}}</ref> The Australian fiction collaborators who write under the pen name [[Alice Campion]] are a group of women who have so far written ''The Painted Sky'' (2015) and ''The Shifting Light'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penguin.com.au/books/the-painted-sky-9780143784630|title=The Painted Sky {{!}} Penguin Books Australia, ISBN 9780857984852, 384 pages|website=penguin.com.au|access-date=2017-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penguin.com.au/books/the-shifting-light-9780143781110|title=The Shifting Light {{!}} Penguin Books Australia, ISBN 9780143781110, 368 pages|website=penguin.com.au|access-date=2017-01-20}}</ref>

In the 1780s, ''[[The Federalist Papers]]'' were written under the pseudonym "Publius" by [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[James Madison]], and [[John Jay]]. The three men chose the name "Publius" because it recalled the founder of the Roman Republic and using it implied a positive intention.<ref name="Furtwangler1">{{Cite book| publisher = Cornell Univ Pr| isbn = 978-0-8014-9339-3| last = Furtwangler| first = Albert| title = The Authority of Publius: A Reading of the Federalist Papers| date = 1984| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mfWGAAAAMAAJ&q=pseudonym}}, p.51</ref>

In [[pure mathematics]], [[Nicolas Bourbaki]] is the pseudonym of a group of mostly French-connected mathematicians attempting to expose the field in an axiomatic and self-contained, encyclopedic form.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician|url=https://archive.org/details/apprenticeshipma00weil|url-access=limited|last=Weil|first=André|publisher=Birkhäuser Verlag|year=1992|isbn=978-3764326500|pages=[https://archive.org/details/apprenticeshipma00weil/page/n91 93–122]|author-link=André Weil}}</ref>