Back in the days when all bookstores were physical places with finite shelf space, a rising author risked losing revenue by simply publishing a new book: unsold copies of the author’s old book would be sent back to the publisher before the new ones were shelved. To counter this, Ed Corley wrote under several pseudonyms and rotated his stories among them to keep all of his books selling longer.

Also, as Ed was a master of genre fiction, he was conscious that not all of his fans appreciated the different kinds of stories he wrote. To help his readers find the novels they enjoyed, he wrote under his own name and those of David Harper, Patrick Buchanan, William Judson, and Will Collins.