The Peculiar Dilemma of An Intrepid Self-Publisher

When I told an author friend of my new adventure in publishing, she identified two issues, both of them sound:

1. I had a really good social media ‘platform’ (yeah, we talk like that) with my original name. As Aimee Alexander, I would lose that.

After consideration (because she had a point), I had this to say:

‘I don’t want to be connected to my traditionally published self. Aimee Alexander is like a different person, a part of me that has been lying dormant for too long, the dynamic part. As...