What’s In a Name? More Than You Can Imagine

by | Jul 26, 2016 | Books

Shakespeare famously said, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet;" (Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2). But we know that names do in fact matter. I have always been fascinated by different naming customs, and the cycles...

How do you choose names for your characters?

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial

character It’s a very intuitive process and it can happen in one of several ways. Sometimes a character simply is who he or she is, and will tell me his or her name right away. In Mindel and the Misfit Dragons, Mindel simply appeared as Mindel. She was Mindel from the...