Introducing A.J. Harris

I was going to write a completely different post. I wanted to tell folks that my short story “Shelter From the Storm” has just been published in a new anthology: Stranded. The editor, Delilah Devlin, had a great post up about the anthology.

Well, then this kinda happened:

And then this:

Which brings me to A.J. Harris. Why did I choose to have another name for my romantic/erotic fiction? Well, two reasons. The first is really marketing – I wanted a distinction between the brands.

The second reason is my sister. She calls me A.J., all the time. She’s also one of the two big romance readers in my house when growing up. The other was my Baba Ivanna. We’d always find old-school Harlequin romances in her room. And then, there was the chest of drawers in the laundry room, filled with novels. I still remember the one about wearing Highland clans…

So, when my sister asked me if I was getting published under this name, I smiled.

Check it out. Everyone’s done an amazing job, and I’m chuffed to think one day, a copy may end up in the chest of drawers belonging to the grandma of a young writer…