The Truth of the Matter

So... here's the thing.

You may want to sit down.

This may come as a surprise to some of you, and to others, it will be no shock at all.

Are you ready for the news?

Are you sure?

Okay, here goes...

My real name is not Grace Karlson.



Nor is it Mia.



I know. I'm shamed forever.

... Okay, not really shamed ...

Grace Karlson is a name belonging to one of my original characters (whom I love very much) (and thus why I said that some would not be shocked... if you knew Grace, you would know that I am indeed not her...)

Mia is a nickname given to me by a very dear friend (nicknamed after the main character in "The Princess Diaries").

Why, you may ask, would I claim that my name is either of those things when it is not?  Well, dear readers (whom I also love very much), my mother trained me well since childhood to never put my real name on the internet.  And I don't plan to.

Well... not entirely.

You see, the thing is, I've recently felt that I'm being a bit dishonest and a bit unfair.  Dishonest to you, the readers, and unfair to Grace, who was just unlucky enough to be the first name I thought of when I needed a character name with which to make a Google account.

And so, with this post, I intend to endeavour to try and be more honest with all of you... and more fair to Grace.

So from this post forward, I shall go by a pen name I have selected, using my own first name and a surname that my father came up with when he began writing his own novel.

I shall henceforth be known around the interwebs as Abigail McKenna.  You dear ones may call me Abby (or, if you are like my pastor, feel free to call me Abigail... I really don't mind either way.)  (Like... people ask me which I prefer, and I always say I don't care.  Because I really don't.  Most of my teachers [and Pastor] call me Abigail, but pretty much everyone else in my life calls me Abby.  But y'all do whatever you want.)

Abigail is my real given name.  Now you know.



Whew, if feels good to get that off my chest.  ... Now to go change my name on all my social media.

~ Abby