Moving!

After more than five days of not being able to log in to my blog for NO APPARENT REASON (scream), I've decided to move. This isn't the first time I've been locked out of my blog here at blogger. In fact, this is my third blog at this site; third, because the same thing happened with my other two.

So--that's it. Three strikes and you're out. Goodbye, Blogger. Hello, wordpress. And while I'm changing my blog site, I've decided to change my pen name. Why? Weeeellll...it's big, it's bulky and it makes a damn difficult domain. Plus, it sounds like a historical writer's name. And...well...I feel like it. So my new name is (insert trumpet sound here): Cyndi Sweet.

Or...Jayci Yates. I haven't quite decided. My friend Jennifer Shirk, who doesn't need a pen name because she's lucky enough to have married a man without a difficult to remember or spell Italian name (ahem), likes Jayci Yates. Yates is my maiden name and to be honest--I also think it's hard for people to spell. My entire pre-D'Attilio life, I heard this: What's your last name? Gates? Gates? Oh! Yates! Oh, I thought...

Not that D'Attilio (yeah, that's my last name) is easier to spell than Yates. Most definitely not. In fact, when I started dating the man who became my husband, it took me a month to even remember his last name--forget trying to spell it. Hence, my reason for trying to find the perfect pen name to begin with. It's purely a marketing decision.

Why Cyndi Sweet? As I thought about last names and pseudonyms, I realized that the best last names are those that are either nouns, verbs or even adjectives. Think of a person named Green. Right away, you picture the color and it's remembered.

Alliterative names are also easier to remember.

Anyhow, I figured that sweet is an adjective AND a noun (if you're someone who calls a piece of candy a sweet, as does a British-born woman with whom I work). And, it's alliterative.

So...there you have it. Cyndi Sweet, writer of comedic contemporary sweet (meaning no sex-aha!) romance. Fine thoughts for a woman not yet published. But there's no reason not to get my ducks lined up. Right?

Which leads me (and you, one of my two readers) to my new blog. I call it Write Away (how clever...bleh). And the address? www.cyndisweet.wordpress.com

I hope to see you there.