Sunday, December 8, 2019

two persona



After creating two separate, though very similar, profiles in cyberspace, it's almost like I have two separate persona: one technical and one literary. I even keep two separate web pages: http://dudleybenton.altervista.org/index.html and http://djamesbenton.altervista.org/index.html

Why two names?

My mother and my aunt independently picked the same name for a son: James Dudley. James just happened to be the first name of my mother's father and my aunt's father. Dudley was my father's father's middle name. My cousin was born first so he got James Dudley and I got stuck with Dudley James. My cousin passed away in 2008 after a long battle with cancer. In 2015, when I started writing for a wider audience, I decided to try a variant, D. James, and that's where you will find my books https://www.amazon.com/D.-James-Benton/e/B019RX31RE