{"id":1517,"date":"2020-01-10T17:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2020-03-04T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T01:22:29","slug":"kelvin-or-reg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/2020\/01\/10\/kelvin-or-reg\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin or Reg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve reached an important milestone for me&#8211;i.e., the completion of a shareable draft of my retirement planning book, I have to make a big decision.<\/p>\n<p>Do I continue to write under the pseudonym &#8220;Kelvin D. Hatch&#8221;? Or do I &#8220;come out&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Kelvin D. Hatch (&#8220;KDH&#8221;) sounds much more impressive to me than Reg Gothard (&#8220;REG&#8221;), but then I&#8217;ve lived with my own name a lot longer, so I&#8217;m entitled think it&#8217;s &#8220;bleh&#8221; compared with KDH. But my book plans include seeking speaking engagements, and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d respond instantly to people who try to attract my attention by saying, &#8220;Hey, Kelvin&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One thing&#8217;s for sure. I have to do some drastic housekeeping on this website. So&#8230; over the next month or twenty-four (I&#8217;m a really good procrastinator!), I&#8217;ll be<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changing all my humorous articles from &#8220;posts&#8221; to &#8220;pages&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Adding a bio that describes me better in terms of the retirement planning and speaking thing.<\/li>\n<li>Adding a link to my e-commerce website, wherein my plays already exist, and my book and related products and services will be placed. The e-commerce site has been in existence for about four years now, but I haven&#8217;t made it &#8220;live&#8221; yet.<\/li>\n<li>Most likely paying good money to get a professional do-over for the site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In between all this, I have to learn how to market myself and my writing on social media. I&#8217;m pretty sure I should have started that months ago, but I really didn&#8217;t know when or even if I&#8217;d get the book &#8220;finished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, that&#8217;s my life for the last six months and likely the next six months too. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p>And in the meantime, which name do you think I should use for my writing?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kelvin D. Hatch<\/li>\n<li>Reg Gothard<\/li>\n<li>Reginald E. Gothard (yes, my initials spell my name&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve reached an important milestone for me&#8211;i.e., the completion of a shareable draft of my retirement planning book, I have to make a big decision. Do I continue to write under the pseudonym &#8220;Kelvin D. Hatch&#8221;? Or do I &#8220;come out&#8221;? Kelvin D. Hatch (&#8220;KDH&#8221;) sounds much more impressive to me than Reg Gothard (&#8220;REG&#8221;), but then I&#8217;ve&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/2020\/01\/10\/kelvin-or-reg\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[660,659],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wip","tag-names","tag-pseudonym"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}