For mine, I kept it simple. I was going to use my full, real name, but there were a few problems with it. For one, I normally go by my first and the first of my two middle names hyphenated, which is long in itself. Then my real last name is a tongue twister and since there are only a few of us in the province with that particular last name, it's easy to find me and members of my family. It wouldn't work. My husband and I like our privacy and would prefer that people contact me via my websites or Facebook page instead of here at the house somehow.
So I went with using the initials of my first name (V) and my first middle name (J) and then used an elongated version of my great grandmother's first name (Alice) to honor her. She was a bookworm like me, and according to my mother, I look and act a lot like she did.
That's how I came up with V.J. Allison for a nom de plume, and I love it.
One of my pickier friends pointed out it reminds her daughter of some of the greats in the writing world. I've been told it's so easy to pronounce and remember because Allison is such a common name... Not exactly as a surname, but it works for me.
It's a lot easier to pronounce and spell over my real last name too.
So I went with using the initials of my first name (V) and my first middle name (J) and then used an elongated version of my great grandmother's first name (Alice) to honor her. She was a bookworm like me, and according to my mother, I look and act a lot like she did.
That's how I came up with V.J. Allison for a nom de plume, and I love it.
One of my pickier friends pointed out it reminds her daughter of some of the greats in the writing world. I've been told it's so easy to pronounce and remember because Allison is such a common name... Not exactly as a surname, but it works for me.
It's a lot easier to pronounce and spell over my real last name too.
