About



My real name is Donna. My real last name is not Sirianni. That’s just a family name that’s the Italian equivalent to Smith. Plus it’s shorter and easier to pronounce although it is quite interesting to hear those telemarketers massacre my real last name, as if it isn’t phonetic or anything. This name, Donna Sirianni, is what I write most of my work under, including fantasy and other random pieces. I have submitted stuff under my real name but I had a change of heart and decided to use a pseudonym . . . or two. Yeah, I have another one. I also write under the name Kate Boddie. That stuff is purely humor. I was advised to take on different pseudonyms for each genre that I write in since I write in more than one. I then told them that my brain is of the sieve variety and it’s surprising that I remember my own name, let alone made up ones that I give to myself. Lets just say I wear a few name tags on my chest. If you call me Kate through a crowded room and I don’t answer, don’t be offended. Chances are I a) didn’t hear you, b) forgot that that’s an alternate name for myself and/or c) was stuffing my face with the pickies over in the corner.

My first blog was Finding Boddie which has since been deleted. I found that once I stopped procrastinating (ok, once I lessened the procrastination) and really started working on my writing, I found it difficult to pay such close attention to my humor blog, maintain a readership and constantly try to amuse with clever quips on a regular basis. This is not to be confused with me not wanting to write humor anymore. That’s certainly not the case but I realized that I did want to talk about writing some more, I wanted to talk about my fantasy WIPs and share some of that information with people but the Boddie blog just wasn’t the right place to do it. People going there would see serious posts and have a WTF moment and then, more than likely, quickly leave. So, after much mulling about, I came to Wordpress because I like the categories thingy they have. It will allow me to section off my writing much better than Blogger did. That’ll keep my OCD happy. I like it when my OCD is happy.

So, that being said, I’ve transferred all of my writerly stuff, including my short stories and my minimal talk about writing, from my Boddie blog to this one. Don’t worry. This blog won’t be completely devoid of my snarky wit. It just won’t be as in your face. I just felt really stifled there, especially since I broke into fantasy and I realized that I wanted to talk about my writing even more than what I did there; I want to talk about my work and my methods and my reasonings and everything to do with writing itself and I felt I couldn’t do that over there. Here I can stretch my legs and I feel I can be more me. Don’t get me wrong, Boddie is certainly a subset of myself but it’s not the whole me. This, I feel, will be. I can feel the freedom already.

My posting schedule here is pretty much at my whim. I’d like to get in a post a week but that’s not a promise. The mood here is more relaxed and it’s a better jive for my juju. I don’t feel the need to update constantly which is a nice feeling.