What's In A Name?
You may have noticed a recent small change to my site. Well, more accurately, to my name.For a number of reasons, some to do with searchability, and others to do with honouring family ties, I've decided to add my married name to my public author name.I was never that bothered about changing my name when I got married. As far as I was concerned, I had a perfectly good name and there wasn't much point in going through the paperwork of changing everything over. It also seemed a bit unfair, in the scheme of things, a throwback to a time when women lost their identity, their property and many of their rights upon getting married.However, I'm not going to get into the whole patriarchy/changing names thing here - we are fortunate that nowadays it's a personal decision and that we can do whatever makes us happy. I have many friends and family who have delighted in changing their names upon getting married, others who have double-barrelled with their spouse's last name (as I've done here), and others still who go by a variety of names personally and professionally (which I will also be doing.)Anyway, I suppose this is a long way of saying: I've changed my author name! There will be more changes to come as I set up a long overdue website, of which this blog will be part, and I'm also hoping to have some exciting publishing news to share soon.Watch this space...PS - And you can still find all my currently published books under my original author name - it's a bit more complex to change things over on the various sites, but I'm working on it...
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