Oh very boring, I'm sure many others have made the mistake - although perhaps less enduringly: Louise.

It's the combination of Louise being the more common name coupled with Stowell beginning with an S. That's going to catch a lot of people out.

I either get Louise or Louis!

And my tendency to read words by shape rather than letters, at a breakneck (~900wpm) speed (because that's my relaxed speed). Curiously I lurch / stumble quite frequently over transposed letters when they appear, as they damage the pattern I guess.

Jeeeez-usss, 900?😮 That's an average novel in under two hours

Yes, that is about right.

The last time I had a good, uninterrupted bout of reading time, I read the whole of the Elenium (David Eddings) in 1 and a half days. (Not 24 hours per day! Just around other things).

I took about six weeks to read Domes of Fire. And then found out it was merely the first of the "second" series which explained why I didn't have a clue who half the people were. 😂

Not going to help with speed-of-readthrough certainly! Also not going to help with enjoyment.

Wose news still, the book was in a charity shop in Stratford-Upon-Avon next to the rest of the series, but I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it so I only bought book 1 thus rnedering the other books somewhat less valuable to the shop AND, I DID enjoy it despite the wrong order.

ah yes! Some people I worked with for YEARS thought I was called Louise...

Well at least I didn't work with you for years without noticing! I'm flattered you thought there was a chance I'd made at least an imaginative mistake! I can't picture you opting for a pen name that wasn't interesting.

PS in my former colleague's defence we only ever "met" over email really.

Sounds like a dream job.

HA! I don't know what I was thinking actually but maybe some complete letterjumble? Yours makes more sense,