I realize I don't write a lot, but I want to change my pen name slightly. I keep getting startled everytime I see Allison Skye because I think of myself as "askye".

Also I want to change my email address, because I want all my fannish stuff going to one address now.

How hard would it be to make these changes?

Depends on how many places have you under the current name.

I'm trying to think--Smallville Slash, Buffy Fiction Archive, Level Three, Glass Onion, and Silverlake. But I don't have all my stuff at every place, I only have one story on Silverlake. I think there are three at Level Three. That sort of thing.

I realize it would be a huge thing to ask the archivists so I wouldn't go to them all at once and expect it to be done right away.

Don't expect it all to get done period. Some archivists don't have time, some archivists will do their best, some are vacationing in Tahiti.

That's not to mention all the other places on the net where you didn't KNOW you were being archived, until you googled your pseud one day. Although googling the email address is better, actually -- you get the archives and not just random references.

Changing your fic pseud is just... unpleasant. I don't recommend it unless you absolutely have to. Like you posted everything under your legal name and it included RPS and now you want to teach kindergarten, or go into politics.

My email address only shows up on Google for Smallville Slash. So I guess I won't worry about that.

I think of myself as "askye"

Out of interest - do you think of it as pronounced "Ah sky", "Eh sky" or "Ask ye"? Or something else?

Like you posted everything under your legal name and it included RPS and now you want to teach kindergarten, or go into politics.

t suddenly dry-mouthed.

....not my legal name. No. Not RPS, no. The Big Gay Sex, occasionally including allegedly underaged alien superheroes - yes. Teaching kindergarten, yes.

gulp

I pronounce it "ah skye". Although "eh skye" would work as well.

FYI, for any of the archives I run, I do change e-mail addresses and website URLs upon request.

Well, I change the stuff in the database right off, and then take my sweet time updating individual story files.

I'm not too worried about how long it takes for stories to get put back up on the archives, I realize it's a huge pain in the ass.