PSA: Naming the Names
Saturday, May 21st, 2011 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniMy name is Sharon Lee. This is not just my "professional" name; it's the name that's on my driver's license, my Social Security card, my passport, and on all those fiddley little pieces of paper you have to fill out when they hire you to do a day-job.
It is perfectly true that I am married to a man surnamed Miller, and have been for Quiet Some Number of Years. However, even back in those Dim, Dim Ages during which we plighted our troth and began our lives together, it was permitted that a lady keep the name she walked into the courthouse with, if she chose to do so.
Which I did.
The byline on the work I do with my co-author husband is Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. This is not a clever indication that my name is actually Sharon Lee Miller. It's not.
This PSA is brought to you by the congruence of three people in three days referring to my work as having been written by "Sharon Miller." Last I looked, Sharon Miller was a romance writer, and a fine one; but she is not me. Nor am I her. Please do not confuse us. When in doubt, look at the cover of the book you're reviewing.
Thank you.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.
It is perfectly true that I am married to a man surnamed Miller, and have been for Quiet Some Number of Years. However, even back in those Dim, Dim Ages during which we plighted our troth and began our lives together, it was permitted that a lady keep the name she walked into the courthouse with, if she chose to do so.
Which I did.
The byline on the work I do with my co-author husband is Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. This is not a clever indication that my name is actually Sharon Lee Miller. It's not.
This PSA is brought to you by the congruence of three people in three days referring to my work as having been written by "Sharon Miller." Last I looked, Sharon Miller was a romance writer, and a fine one; but she is not me. Nor am I her. Please do not confuse us. When in doubt, look at the cover of the book you're reviewing.
Thank you.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.
