I’m not going to lie, I’m terrified.

I am drifting away from the name that created this whole thing. I started with Jessica Brodie Diaries. As in…that was the first books completed. I wrote it as a hobby. It was something to do. I was newly married, almost settling down into a domestic life, and I needed a little fantasy.

What better than a cultivated cowboy with a wild side, am I right?

So amid wine, brie, grapes and quiet time, I wrote whatever came to mind. I used a lot of personal experiences, silliness, a desire to explore the great wide open, and wrote that series. I wasn’t thinking of readers—because I never thought anyone would read it. I just wrote. For fun.

That was also the biggest learning curve of my career. You guys, I literally never thought anyone would read it. I’m not kidding. I still don’t let family and friends read my books.

Well, people did read it. A lot of people. And then complained about the editing and cover.

Self-editing. Oh lord how dumb I was.

But c’mon people – you don’t love this cover??

I’m a design rock-star…

I know, yikes. Also, hilarious that I thought that was good.

So that series started it. The Growing Pains cemented it. The Skyline Series, my absolute favorite of the three, was hidden away by an indie-publisher, but that made it serious. And then I wrote something to distract the Jessica Brodie fans from wanting more.

The Darkness Series was born.

After/during came Chosen, a concept I’d dreamed about making a screenplay about since teenage years. A book I’d started and stopped twice by then.

All this under KF Breene. All that.

And now the thing that started it all is drifting away from romance, the genre that started it all.

I will say, though, that I couldn’t be prouder of this new name. The name was born from the readers. Willow Summers isn’t me. At all. My beta reader/support group/sarcastic bitch/good friend pointed this out to me. It’s too pretty. Too great. Too nice. I’m not those things. But the readers created that name, and they are those things. They are exactly those things, even on bad days. So it fits that they chose that name for me.

Born from the readers, for the readers.

So I’m happy I’m starting this new chapter with this new name.

But still. It’s scary.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to finish off my glass of wine and go to bed.

Notice I said glass instead of bottle? Yeah. I’m classy. Ha!

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