Definition of "auctorial" []

• Of or relating to an author. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The relaunching of authors under new names is still done, and sometimes writers can be open about it and sometimes publishers ask them to keep it quiet so that the chain bookstores will not order according to the numbers posted by their “old” auctorial names."
• "Because if there is -- if there's one particle of justice in there anywhere -- it's probably due to auctorial oversight."
• "(I also don't rescue them from their bad decisions: if they screw up, the auctorial angel is not going to rescue them.)"