An explanation...

So, I think I better explain why there has been so many name changes...

Let me start by saying I am VERY indecisive. It's a Gemini thing. I have got through 6 different pen names, trying to find ME. I finally found one I adore, and I'm STICKING with it!! It has very personal and sentimental meaning to me.

Honestly, I don't even remember some of them... The ones I DO remember are:

Rebecca Ann
Rebecca Drake
Beckilyn Marie
Daisy Nathaniels
and now, the one that is going to STICK
Daisy Loveless

The one that stuck the longest, Daisy Nathaniels, also had personal meaning to me... daisies are one of my fave flowers (roses and peonies being the other two) and if I was a boy, I would have been named Nathaniel... I felt like I was honoring my mother by using 'Nathaniel' in my pen name.

About a month ago, I just started not feeling it.

So, I really sat and thought about it. I really wanted to keep the 'Daisy' of it, but what last name could I use? I really didn't want to use my real last name, because I didn't want to have it change it if I ever get married.

And then it came to me.

I chose 'Daisy Loveless' because I love daisies (roses and peonies being my other two fave flowers) and how close I was to my best male friend Johnny, who died in 2011... so it's my way of 'memorializing' him. I miss Johnny every single day, and I know if he was still alive, he'd be supporting me 125% in being an author.

That being said, I want to thank Mama Melissa, Shelia, Andrea, Marci, Paulette and Ryan for helping make the decision, because I was actually sitting on the fence for a LONG time about this... Their positive words and memes gave me the gentle 'push' I needed to actually go for it.

So, here we go... Thanks for following along for the ride!