I write as McConnaughay (my last name) and, for the most part, that is my online username as well (I decided to go with 'Nick' on Dustjacket to be more personal, everywhere else, it's still McConnaughay). Since my father left with a little kid, I have never really known a single person with my last name, thus I've taken it as my own entirely (my wife is, perhaps poetically, now the only exception),