December 23 – New Name Let’s meet again, for the first time. If you could introduce yourself to strangers by another name for just one day, what would it be and why?
This actually could have been my name; my mom has always told me that she loved the name “Sayard” although she doesn't remember where she first heard it (“Maybe a book, or I heard it on TV” she says) and ever since high school, when I wanted to be an English teach who wrote amazing novels on the weekends and summer vacations, my nom de plume has been Sayard Morgan.
Sayard, my almost name and Morgan, my middle name and one that represents several generations of family.
Reverb10 has done a lot to make me feel, once again, more like a writer, and so I am choosing to take on my alter ego author name for this day.
You are a writer and that's a great name! Happy #reverb10
The book your mother read is most likely part of Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels — The Trees, The Fields, The Town. Here's the Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/Fields-Second-Book-Awakening-Trilogy/dp/0821409794
Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook played Sayward and her husband in a TV adaptation.