About my last name, and why I
changed it for my Young Adult books...
Quite often publishers like
an author to use a different last name or pseudonym when they
write in different genres. It’s
understandable, because if an author writes horror and romantic
comedy, then the readers might get a bit of a shock if they buy
a book based on a romantic comedy they read by the same author
and discovered it was a horror story instead. And vice versa.
So when my editor asked me
to chose a different last name for my Young Adult stories, I
was happy to do it and immediately knew which one I wanted to
use. (Although I have to say that the tone of my women’s
fiction books are also light and fun!)
When my dear old dad was
still around, my sisters and I always used to tease him that
there but for one vowel change in his name, we’d be the
daughters of a famous, fabulous American actor who we all loved
(and still do).
My dad was called. . .Robert Radford.
:)
