The days of blogging pseudonymously are over, at least for me.

After much contemplation, I believe the time has come to link this blog to my real name.  Again.

Why?

Dreamdarkers, End of the Warm Season, Centralia, and my other novels continue development, and I suspect the first will be ready for agent hunting and publisher searching much sooner than you might think—and hopefully much sooner than I think.  I’ve always maintained that being published would change my blogging modus operandi.  Consider this a preemptive strike.

My initial reasons for moving my blog from my name to xenogere no longer seem important.  That is, I once concerned myself with who might find my various ramblings and what they might think.  Working for overly conservative businesses meant I had to keep my head low and my life off the radar.  Now I don’t give a damn.  Such trepidation serves only to elicit further anxiety.

Additionally, it no longer takes a clever person to discover the owner of this domain or any of my other domains/sites.  While once upon a time only an internet pro could chase down those details, that data is now aggregated ad nauseam and locatable via the simplest of Google searches.  While I could dispose of that data and assign ownership to an anonymous organization, I no longer feel it worth the effort.

This doesn’t mean xenogere is moving.  Hardly.  I like this domain and have no interest in trying yet another migration back to my name.

Instead, this simply means I’ll not hide who I am anymore, from updating the various about pages to not redacting anything personally identifiable.  I’m not talking about a major blogging shift here, only a stop to the cowering in corners when a tidbit might somehow lead to me in the outside world.

It also means I’ll now forward some of my other domains to xenogere.  They have languished in obsolescence since the migration away from my name.  That seems terribly unnecessary.