Quote - She is a writer and has an interest in writing for a specific audience.  She has a daughter and grandkids that she doesn't want to stumble onto this particualar genre of works.  YET- she wants to be aknowledged as the originator of the work.

Anne Rice published three books under the nom de plume A. N. Roquelaure. It doesn't seem to have hurt her career. Steven King wrote The Running Man under a pen name of Richard Bachman which was later made into a move starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Same comment :)