 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing you another video from Jerusalem. And I want to talk today just for a few minutes about the whole topic of publishing under a pen name and how you can actually do that through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, better known as KDP. So the first thing to say about publishing under a pen name in KDP is that it's legitimate. So if you're concerned that you have to do something that breaks Amazon's terms of service or you're gonna get kicked off the platform for being discovered to have used a pen name or whatever, that's not the case. You can just do it basically. It's above board. It's in accordance with Amazon KDP's TOS and you don't need to worry about that. So publishing under KDP and Amazon is pretty straightforward. You go ahead and just go into your KDP account in the conventional means. But when you're going through the process of setting up your books on your bookshelf, you want to put the author as your pseudonym as your pen name and then go through what's the rest of the publishing process. Another thing to point out is that after you publish your book, you can go ahead and create an Amazon author central property for that pen name. And then you can later go ahead and associate all the pen names authorship, your authorship with that Amazon author central property so that it looks kind of more cohesive and legit to the outside world. That's basically KDP. Obviously Amazon knows who you are. You have to use a real name to get paid, but that process works fine. So on my bookshelf on Amazon, I have a book that I wrote under my actual name and I have one book I wrote under a pen name. And when I go into reports and I pick up royalties for both and it works really seamlessly. So I just want to also speak for a few minutes about why I really, really support pen names. So people do use pen names for a variety of reasons. One of those is that for instance, the writing material that might not be congruent, congruous, let's say with their professional image and that's something a lot of authors do. I did mine just to kind of the pen name book I did. For me, it was a nice chance to be able to test how a book was going to be received without putting my name on it. Putting a bit of distance between me and the readers. And that was personally my main reason and also if you're writing on a controversial topic or you're taking an opinion on an issue, it just gives you again that kind of distance from both readers who really enjoy the work and readers who hate the work. So that's another thing, I guess that's kind of a safety concern. But I think the biggest reason I support pen name publishing is that it allows authors who otherwise wouldn't be able to get their authorship out into the world to do that. So I'm talking about whistleblowers, victims of abuse, that kind of thing. People with stories to tell that if their families, let's say, were to see their work or read their stories or if they used actual names, they could be sued for defamation. So I think that those are really, really important use cases for pen name publishing. That's why some authors do it. And I'm not necessarily, I don't have strong thoughts about Amazon but I actually think it's really wonderful that they're published, self-publishing service. KDP makes it easy to be, to actually get your pen name pseudonymed authorship out there in the world, get it to readers, get feedback. So those are my thoughts about pen name publishing. And if you're interested in receiving more videos from me, then feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.