I'm back again at the start of 2013 with my What's Your Answer monthly post where you, the readers, get to chime in and answer questions I pose to you. Please use only one URL in your signature when answering in the comment section. First Question:  What name do you use as a writer - a pen name or actual name?  My Answer:  I use a pen name. Morgan Mandel is not my actual name, but I did register it as a Service Mark with the State of Illinois to make it legal. Second Question: How and w hy did you choose that name? My Answer:  There were several reasons why I chose a pen name, and Morgan Mandel in particular. First of all, my actual last name was more often than not misspelled by people who were not close family or friends. With that obstacle, I figured I had small chance of readers finding me if they tried to search for my actual name. I decided to pick an easy to spell, easy to understand name, which would also be easy to write when I did autog...