It Is A Circle Blog

I’ve had a fair few names along the way. My birth name, chosen name, one married name… and now I’m poised for a new identity.

For practical reasons, I want to keep the work I do with Tom separate from the erotica I write. For personal, emotional reasons, I want to be sharing his surname. All being well we get to do that in a legal sense this summer. So legally, I’m going to be Brynneth Nimue Brown some time soon, and very much looking forward to it.

But, what to do with the names? Bryn Colvin has a modest reputation as a smut writer, and I don’t want to mess with that. Bryn Brown, and Brynneth Brown are not really names that work at all. Not for book covers. Very comfortable with being that for every day, but the alliteration makes it a touch odd as an author name, and B.B is already in use.

After some consideration and talking and whatnot, I’m going to start using the name Nimue Brown for work I do with Tom – on the webcomic, here, and potentially other things. Wherever that makes sense. I’m not yet sure who I’m going to be when writing pagan things – Brynneth Nimue is a distinct possibility. Hopefully it will help keep the strands separate without confusing anyone (especially me) too much.

Names are important things. They are words of power. In some traditions, to be able to truly name a thing, is to be able to control it. To change a name is to change a destiny. I don’t really know who Nimue Brown is, yet. I get the impression she’s lighter of heart, more playful and fey than Bryn Colvin. She laughs easily, and at the moment she exists almost exclusively in relation to Tom, although she sneaks out to play without him sometimes. She exists because of him, and for him. I suspect her of being obsessed. Her writing is different from Bryn’s – lighter, faster, more in your face, less angsty.

I realise I’ve just written my first Nimue post in third person. Hey ho. I’m sleep deprived and my relationship with reality is… a bit creative just now.