I grew up Southern Baptist, on the outskirts of purity culture - so when I started my self publishing career, any books my extended family would find acceptable were published under my birth name, and everything else that might scandalize them went under one of two pen names depending on if they were contemporary romances or something a bit more fantastical.
At the time that was pretty typical as it was recommended that you have a different pen name for every genre you might write in. The...