Rebranding: D. S. Moen Becomes Deirdre Saoirse Moen

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Years ago, based on something Patrick Nielsen Hayden said (“You have three names, all of them difficult to spell.”), I decided to submit my work to publishers under the name D. S. Moen rather than my full name of Deirdre Saoirse Moen.

Partly that was being conscious, having worked in a bookstore, that anyone with an invisibly compound last name was difficult to shelve. We had signs in the M that Gabriel García Márquez was shelved under García Márquez, for example. (Wikipedia follows the same convention for Spanish-style naming customs.)

Mine isn’t that. I like to say that I emborged Rick and added his distinctiveness to my own, keeping my own surname as a part of my new surname. And Saoirse was a name I legally changed my surname to.

At the time I made that call, I wasn’t as well known as I am now, and I think it’s just easier for everyone if it’s under my whole name rather than part of it.

Henceforth, for things I publish under my own name, they will be under Deirdre Saoirse Moen rather than D. S. Moen. I care less about whether I’m shelved under S or M, though S is technically correct.

Limited Amazon Exclusivity for Rhonda and Duchess

Both of these have been out for a while, so I’ve put them in Kindle Select through mid-April-ish. This requires withdrawing sale from other retailers (including my own web site).

However, if you’re in Kindle Unlimited (and if you’re not, there’s a 30-day free trial), these books are free for you to read. Free!

The Duchess’s Dress

"The Duchess's Dress" is a 3200-word fantasy short story set in a quasi-medieval secondary world. Can Elise, servant of the duchess, save her from the seer? Can the duchess, offended by the seer's vision, get the queen to sanction the seer?

$0.99 – Purchase

A Sword Called Rhonda

"A Sword Called Rhonda" is a 2800-word humorous fantasy short story originally published in a Baen anthology.

$0.99 – Purchase

Deirdre Saoirse Moen Anagrams Very Nicely

I’m the only person I know of whose names are separately anagramable and, when those anagram words are put together, form a phrase.

dire red / a rose is / omen

Or:

Red rose is a dire omen.

Originally published at deirdre.net. You can comment here or there.