As to his various pen names, their use chiefly reflects Jordan’s desire for privacy for himself and his wife, publisher and editor Harriett P. McDougal, with whom Jordan shares a pre-Revolutionary War home.
“There’s also a commercial consideration having to do with what publishers will accept. If I’d write a horror novel under the name Robert Jordan, publishers will accept. But if I went with a Robert Jordan mystery—that far out of genre—there would probably be a big fight over it, the kind of distraction I would just as soon avoid. Not that I haven’t had my share of disagreements with editors and publishers.
“Beyond all that, I also enjoy the multiple identities.”
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