The Financial Times.“We didn’t hide behind a woman, we hid behind a name,” Mercero told Spanish newspaper El País. “I don’t know if a female pseudonym would sell more than a male one, I don’t have the faintest idea, but I doubt it.”In interviews and on their author profile, Martínez, Díaz and Mercero said Carmen Mola was a university professor who lived in Madrid with her husband and three children.