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Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?



By Wendy C Allen

Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?

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Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?

Been on Quora more then Reddit this week, and found yet another question to answer. Here it is: Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?

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>Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?

Some people just have common as Jane Doe and Joe Smith type first and last names, so use their middle name to tell Jane A Doe is a different person from Jane B Doe. That is the case for me.

My first name, Wendy, was one of the top 5 baby names for the year I was born, soooo, like every other person my same age has my same first name, LOL!

And my last name is Allen, which is so common you could throw a stone in any direction and hit 20+ people with that last name, none of whom are related to any of the others.

But my middle name, while "popular" is fairly uncommon.

In kindergarten there were 3 other girls with my same first name, JUST in my class (more in other classes) and 5 boys and girls with my same last name (100+ in the whole school - none of us related!)

First day of School, (age 5) the teacher wrote all our names on the board to see which of us knew how to read our own names yet (the goal was for us to get up and point to our own name, so she knew who needed to learn to read their own names).

Because there were 4 of us Wendy's, she had to add our middle initial. So, mine was written on the board as "Wendy C."

We all had to make name tags. Everyone with unique names wore just their first name. The 5 Michelles, 3 Mikes, 2 Pauls, and us 4 Wendys, all had to add a letter. Mine was "C" for Christine.

We had to write a new name tag every day, so that we never forgot how to write our names.

By the end of the first week of kindergarten I had it ingrained into my brain that I was NOT "Wendy", rather I was "Wendy C", but that upset my grandmother for some reason, so I stopped writing "Wendy C." and started writing "Wendy Christine".

And so, since I was 5 years old, I always made people call "first name-middle name" (Wendy-Christine) as though it was all one first name and not my middle name.

My first book was published by that same teacher (I had won a K5 school writing contest and it was a 16 page picture book, of crayon drawings and around 200 words), so at the age of just FIVE years old, I had a book published under the name MY TEACHER , Mrs. Bureau of the Old Orchard Beach Jameson School in Old Orchard Beach, Maine , choose (I was never asked) "Wendy-Christine Allen aka EelKat" is what it said on the cover (EelKat was a spirit animal name my Kickapoo Native American grandmother called me so I assume it was her idea to put that on the cover?)

But that was 1978.

Now 5 decades later, I'm a Dark Fantasy novelist, published 138 novels, and just went with that same name that the Kindergarten teacher had put on my first book, the one published by the school.

Never bothered to change it.

But, yeah, at its start, the reason it was "Wendy-Christine Allen" and not just "Wendy Allen" was because there were 3 other Wendys in my K5 classroom besides me.

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Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?

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Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?

Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy authors include their middle name instead of just using their first and last?





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