What's In A Name

Hello fellow aspiring writers. As part of our quest for super-stardom ala J.K. Rowling, one of our missions is to create a name for ourselves. Start a blog, twitter until it hurts, whatever. Name recognition is key.

Now some people are very smart. Take mi amiga, Justine Dell. She uses her full name on Bransforums. (I picked a pseudo name, because for some odd reason I felt intimidated in the beginning. What? I’m going to offer other people writing advice? Gulp.)

Justine also has a rockin’ blog titled under, once again, her full name. I picked ‘Get Your Giggle On’. It sounded hip and silly. Googling this phrase, I came in today at number four behind an article written for an internet conference, a short story with GYGO as a title, and a site to help those recover from the loss of a loved one. Not too shabby, I suppose.

I guess my next mission is to look in buying a domain name. Check this out if you want to know more. I’ll get around to it, eventually. Maybe.

Somewhere, out there, my future publicist is getting a migraine. Did I mention I really want to publish under my maiden name, Burton?