Hydra M. Star
I get questions about my name a lot. Here's my answer to all things related to my name:
My given name was a very common one and growing up there were several girls in my town, around my age, with the same name. One girl and I shared both first, middle, and last names. So, as you can probably imagine, to clear up the confusion was given and went through a few different nicknames as a kid/teen before finally settling onto Hydra in my late teens. It was a reference to the many headed monster from Greek mythology and how often I changed my hair color/style...and, yes, "Hydra" is to this day what most people in my life (family and friends) call me. It's the name on the outgoing message on my cell phone, I get mail delivered to me under it, etc., etc., etc.
My senior year of high school I add the last name Star, making it Hydra Star, which I got from a Marilyn Manson song (What can I say? I was a teenager and his stuff was cool.) and started publishing some poetry under that name.
I added in the M. later, also as a reference to Greek/Roman mythology and Lucifer. Which made it Hydra M. Star.
In the end, all of this has really worked out for the best, because there's a romance writer that shares my original name and if I still used it that would make marketing and publishing and such all the more difficult.
My given name was a very common one and growing up there were several girls in my town, around my age, with the same name. One girl and I shared both first, middle, and last names. So, as you can probably imagine, to clear up the confusion was given and went through a few different nicknames as a kid/teen before finally settling onto Hydra in my late teens. It was a reference to the many headed monster from Greek mythology and how often I changed my hair color/style...and, yes, "Hydra" is to this day what most people in my life (family and friends) call me. It's the name on the outgoing message on my cell phone, I get mail delivered to me under it, etc., etc., etc.
My senior year of high school I add the last name Star, making it Hydra Star, which I got from a Marilyn Manson song (What can I say? I was a teenager and his stuff was cool.) and started publishing some poetry under that name.
I added in the M. later, also as a reference to Greek/Roman mythology and Lucifer. Which made it Hydra M. Star.
In the end, all of this has really worked out for the best, because there's a romance writer that shares my original name and if I still used it that would make marketing and publishing and such all the more difficult.
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