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Q: Is Lynn Daniels your real
name?
A: Nope. The "Lynn" part is real, but the second part is a pen name. A pseudonym. An alter-ego. An alias. My second personality.
Q: Why a pen name?
A: Because the name I most frequently answer to probably wouldn't work on a book cover. I mean, would you buy a book written by somebody named Momma?
Seriously, I'd love to see my legal name on something other than my driver's license and credit card bills. But when I googled myself I came up with a few articles about a woman who shared my name, but not my values. While I'm pretty open-minded and try not to judge, I also didn't want to be mistaken for this other person. And I'd really hate for my future agent/editor/readers to mistake me for that other person.
Q: How did you choose your pen name?
A: It started as a very scientific process, using lots of logarithms and statistics. When that didn't produce the results I wanted, I pulled out my local phone book, picked out a few last names that I thought matched my first name, and threw them out there for my critique partners to tear apart. Lynn Daniels is the one we settled on. Who knows? I may end up having to change it if my future editor doesn't like it as much as I do. But I'm prepared. Got another name waiting in the wings.
Q: Do you have any writing rituals?
A: Besides the dance I perform at midnight under the full moon? I gave my laptop a name, does that count? Oh, I thought of one. I prefer to be wearing my headphones with music cranking loud enough to block out the world. And I always need to have something to drink nearby. That's two. But that's about it. I think. We may have to revisit this one later.
Q: What about where you write. Do you have an office?
A: Don't I wish! I write wherever I can, as long as I can perch with a pad and pen or my laptop: in the front seat of my truck (when my husband's driving, of course), at my kids' extra-curricular activities, sitting on my bed...but the place I write most often is on a corner of the sofa in my living room. Known in my household as Momma's Spot.
Q: Do you use real people in your books?
A: Boy, would that be a lawsuit waiting to happen! One of my heroines started out based on me, but before long she morphed into her own person. A good thing, too, since my life is way too boring for fiction. The rest of my characters are just people who live inside my head. And damn, but it's crowded in there.
Q: Why would anybody WANT to drink anything called a Fuzzy Navel?
A: For the same reason they'd want to drink something called a Blow Job or a Buttery Nipple (my favorite shot, by the way).
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