An author by any other (pen) name…

I didn’t actually intend to publish under a pen name.

When I first self-published on Kindle Direct Publishing, I used my legal last name, the name I’d had since I was 25. It wasn’t my birth name, but one that I’d taken when I married my first husband. I began writing novels of suspense nine years later, as my marriage was falling apart. In June of 2012, when I submitted my first book for publishing on Kindle, I’d been officially divorced for five months.

I did include a name change on my divorce...