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Thanks for the A2A.Overall, large animals take longer to decompose than small ones. Next time you find a dead whale, get a dead feeder mouse and place it next to the whale. Record what happens, then report your findings to Quora.Decomposition starts when the digestive enzymes in your gut start to digest you and not your food. So an animal with a large gut/body size ratio might rot more quickly. The animals with the largest guts are herbivores, and they probably don’t break down proteins (meat) as effectively as humans. So all things being equal and assuming the experimental participants are the same size, my guess is that decomposition starts faster in carnivores, then omnivores (humans are omnivores), then herbivores.That’s just the beginning. The work of decomposition is performed by bacteria, with help from scavengers (birds, other mammals, insects, etc.). Your own microbiome plus the bacteria in the environment and the temperature and humidity are going to determine at what rate you turn into a puddle of grease. So the rate of initiation of the process by enzymes may not be a factor in the overall speed of decomposition.Brave (or perhaps merely anosmic) scientists have done research into all this. I think they used pigs as proxies before cadavers were available. Body farm - WikipediaIn my library there’s a book called Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death by Jessica Sachs. I can’t get it because the cat won’t let me.

If they were it was only distantly. Mary Russell Mitford’s father was a doctor who also spelled his name as Midford. The Mitford sisters were from an aristocratic Northumberland family that traced itself to the Norman Conquest.

Apparently there are quite a few. Here’s list from the site LibraryThing:Roberta Ackworth (Robert Ackworth)Devin Vaughn Archer (R. Barri Flowers)Andrew AshlingJean Barrett (Bob Rogers)Will Belegon (sometimes teams with Alessio Brio)Emma Blair (Iain Blair)Jessica Blair (Bill Spence-served in WWII)Obren BokichMadeleine Brent (Peter O'Donnell)James BuchananM. L. BuchmanF. D. Caldwell - writing 50 U.S. states serial romancesS. L. Carpenter with writing partner Sahara KellyTori Carrington (Tony and Lori Karayianni)K. N. Casper aka Ken CasperBrindle ChaseEmma Darcy - (Frank & Wendy Brennan)Serge de MoliereDeanna Dwyer (pseudonym used by Dean Koontz in the early 70s for five gothic novels)Peter GoldenVictoria Gordon for romance novels/uses real name Gordon Aalborg for suspense novelsLeigh Greenwood (Harold Lowry)Rupert JamesWayne JordanMadeleine Ker (Marius Gabriel, Marius Gabriel Cippola)Fabio Lanzoni (Yes, THE Fabio. Sometimes writes with Eugenia Riley and Wendy Corsi Staub)Laura London (Tom & Sharon Curtis)J. W. McKennaEdison MarshallBob Mayer and Jennifer Crusie - write jointlyJames MillerDorothea Nile (Michael Avallone)Sylvain ReynardLorraine Roberts (Rob Billeaud)Fay Robinson (Carmel Thomson)Nico RossoGill Sanderson (Roger Sanderson)V. K. Sykes (Collaboration between Vanessa Kelly & her husband)Jessica Stirling (Hugh C. Rae)Chris TanglenVashtan (not-for-profit pseudonym for Aleksandr Voinov)Dorothy Vernon (appears to be a pseudonym for C. L. Pearce, Charles Louis St. John Pearce)Fran Vincent (Vince Brach)Claudette Virmonne (Claude Virmonne)Wynn Wagner (former ordained priest and archbishop who now writes erotica)Lee Williams also uses Leigh Ann Williams (Billy Mernit)Alison York (Christopher Nicole)Also uses these other pseudonyms:Mark LoganSimon McKayChristina NicholsonLeslie ArlenRobin CadeAndrew YorkDaniel AdamsPeter GrangeRobyn Anders (Rob Preece)Also uses:Amy EastlakeRob PreeceW.E.D. Rossalso used numerous other pseudonyms such as:Lydia ColbyRose DanaRoss OlinClarissa RossDan RossMarilyn RossMonica Barrie, Jennifer Dalton, and Marilyn Davids (names used by David Wind)Thomas Elmer Huff or Tom Huff used these pseudonyms:Edwina MarlowBeatrice ParkerKatherine St. ClairJennifer WildeCaroline Farr (Richard Wilkes-Hunter) gothic romances He used over a dozen pseudonyms, including these:R. Wilkes-HunterTodd ConradAlex CraneBradley RossDiana DouglasShauna MarloweHis work is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Allan Geoffrey Yates.And a post from a GoodReads forum:I was asked this question by a fan, being that I am a male romance author (I write erotic romance and erotica in both paranormal and contemporary) and knew there were others, but couldn't name one. So I googled it and found this thread! I didn't know Ilona Andrews was a team! How cool. Anyway, thank you for the list!I'm sure there are others, but there is a stigma to overcome and I know some prefer to hide from the fallout with a gender neutral or female psuedonym. The hate mail I get because of my gender might astound you! Albeit, its rare and becoming increasingly less as acceptance is earned. Anyway, thank you again!So the answer is yes, but most of them don’t publish under their own names.reply | flag *