Where do I come up with my characters' names?
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| Katrina - THE TRAZ |
KATRINA - protagonist of my BackTracker series. When I
started writing this series, Hurricane Katrina was ripping apart the southern
U.S.A. Young Katrina seemed to stir up trouble wherever she went, so the name
just naturally became hers.
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| Katrina - FIREWALLS |
SHRUG – the undercover cop who recruited Katrina to the
biker gang in The Traz. I was looking for a short name because I had to type it
so often. At the time, I was very shy about my writing and every name I came up with
belonged to someone I knew, which I found embarrassing. As Shrug was a
less-than-stellar constable, I wanted to make doubly sure no cop would
think I was writing about a real officer! I figured
no one in the tangible world would be named Shrug. The explanation in the
story about how he acquired his nickname is a tad more exciting.
KINDLE – Sergeant Kindle, the wise senior office in the
BackTracker series, was named long before eReaders were invented. He’s probably
a little shocked that Amazon would name theirs after him! I chose Kindle as,
again, I was looking for a name that couldn’t possibly belong to someone in
real life. I was at the cabin taking a break from writing, contemplating a
campfire and looking for kindling…
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| Chordelia -
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CHORDELIA – also known as “Chorie” in Schrödinger’s Cat. I
have no idea where her name came from. I must have channeled it from another
universe.
LADESQUE – the female heroine in my latest release, Dispassionate
Lies. Again, a made up name. I wouldn’t want any of my friends, family, fans or
acquaintances to think I believe them to be asexual, or hypersexual as
sometimes seems the case in this near-future novella.
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| Ladesque - DISPASSIONATE LIES |
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