Oh the Arrogance!

Who names a blog after themselves? What nerve!
Let's just chalk it up as shameless branding and move on. As a novelist, most of all I want my readers to remember my brand. In the case of authorship, your name your brand. It did not necessarily need to be my name. I very well could have created a different name... you know... a pen name to brand my work.

The following are names I have considered when I was deciding my brand.

S. Michael Cannon
Sean Michael
Sean Mikal Canon
Shawn Michael Cannon
Sean Mikal

The only reason I was looking to make the change from my given name was because there is a Shawn Cannon in just about every industry. A Shawn Cannon already took a twitter account, a blogger account, a wordpress account, and a .com.

What was a guy to do?

In the end I just decided that while I am one of many Shawn Cannons, I'm going to be the best Shawn Cannon at what I do. So while there is Doctor Shawn Cannon, Ghost Hunter Shawn Cannon, Lawyer Shawn Cannon, IT specialist Shawn Cannon. I'm the Novelist Shawn Cannon.