) The thing is, I decided that I didn't like my name enough and would have to have a pen name.So, I thought long and hard about what would be my nom de plume when my glittering literary career went ahead and do you know what I came up with?
Lydia Russell.
:doh: FFS... You'd have thought I'd have been a tad more imaginative but no, for several years that was going to be the name I wrote under. (I even practised the signature.)
Then I realised writing was hard work and the likelihood of being a money-making, best-selling author was slim to none so I decided I wanted to be an actress instead :roll: (I was about 9 at this point
)The point to this preamble is simple: were you to need a nom de plume or other sort of professional alias, what would it be?
at junior school my career ambitions were as follows: author, actress, ambassador and anthropologist
We used to do something similar when some of my friends and I went fruit picking in the summer holidays. One of my friends claimed he was down on the wages list as A. Bollock...he might have been exaggerating though. 
