I really did do my research.
Before I chose my pen name, I googled a lot of candidates. The name Kelly D. Palmer generated few hits. I did find a nice poem by a Kelly D. Palmer. But that’s about it.
And then I made the mistake of moving very slowly. Like a snail, in fact. By the time I got around to creating my blog and creating a Twitter account, I was shocked to find another Kelly D. Palmer had appeared. She has a Facebook acount and the actual KellyDPalmer Twitter account. I had to set up my Twitter as KellyDeePalmer.
Aaaargh!
The lesson here is to move quickly between research and execution. I really do wish I had the KellyDPalmer Twitter account.
Still, it’s OK. Kelly D. Palmer, the Southern California mystery writer, is my brand. I’m sticking with it. It’s me.
I send a shout out to the other Kelly D., hanging out in North Carolina.
[...] ran across another blog today, Kelly D. Palmer’s Mysterious Musings, in which she muses on What’s in a (Pen) Name? To her dismay, she discovered her own nome de plume is already taken on Twitter, so she had to use [...]
Good thought. I’ve been trying to come up with a pen name myself, and am having a hard time settling on one. When and if I do I will bear this in mind.