Being the amateur that I am, I would do one of three things...have the narrator switch names casually:



Have the character in the book, the one that's writing the book, refer to her as Sue and then have the narrator switch to Sue...so...something like:



Or...more of a serious approach would be to sort of put a sentence in there that states the change has been made.



Of course...all of those examples are really just for examples, I'm sure you can write it better, but you know, hopefully I explained the ideas well enough.

Bethany Faith

Good ideas, Bethy, but I don't know many places where E's book would flow like that, making it hard for her to implement those. But I could let her speak for herself.

I would say one of two things, E. Either Mary (now wonders who Mary really is) tells everyone to call her by her real name, or she tells everyone to call her by her previous name.

Or

You could have your characters slip up and call her Mary, instead of Sue, from time to time, while slowly having the slip ups occur less and less, to the point where eventually, you just use Sue instead of Mary.

Which ever one she is actually going to go by, I think.