Kindle: how to describe yourself when using a pen name

Put in what you like. You can claim that you're a blue monkey from the planet Zorg if you like. No one is likely to check up on you.

If you want to you can write, "The Outlaw writes crime fiction as Outlaw Torn, and books for young adults as Outlaw Mended." But you're not obliged to say anything, or to connect your various pseudonyms.

Old Hack said:

Put in what you like. You can claim that you're a blue monkey from the planet Zorg if you like.

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Just don't say you are an orange monkey. They are well known in the galaxy as lesser writers.

In seriousness. If a writer writes well, I personally don't care what genre. I look for their name when I search.

Of course I read several types of genres. One of my favorite "new" authors puts out a book every few months in various genres. They are mostly very good (especially for the price).

Names are not copyrighted. That said, anyone can sue you for any reason they like--so considered whether anyone with that name might think you chose it specifically to mislead or disparage (i.e. is it an unusual name, does it belong to any one of great importance, are you associating it with touchy issues like erotica?). There are advantages to having a distinctive, preferably unique, pen name. Amazon and Google tend to lump together any books u der the same name which can cause confusion.

I'd be more concerned about whether anyone's writing under that name and whether your books might be confused with theirs. You can search on Amazon and Goodreads to get some idea. If none of those twenty people are writing, it's not likely to cause an issue. If they are, you might want to add an initial or something so you don't get lumped together as the same author.