Naming Conventions

Finished filling in all the terminology holes I'd noted in Field of Stars, and decided to just go the easy route for names. Prince Placeholder is now named Prince Justin. His brother, with whom he is contending over the throne of their recently deceased murdered father, is Prince Malcolm. Anyone who can tell which one I'm rooting for based on the names alone gets a cookie.

Their names are, admittedly, somewhat more pedestrian than the major characters in the first book, but I have Max and Owen and Lily and Kitty (real name Melinda) and a few far more background characters with real-world names too in Queen's Choice, so maybe it works. And Karje is the next kingdom over, anyway. (Of the other Karjeans, Arion and William Tanner are complex chains of punnish associations that amuse me; Pemberley gets his name from Pride and Prejudice [as, incidentally, do most of Kitty's sisters], Flora is named for her alchemy hobby, Stasia and Tasha are truncated real-world names, and Jessalind... well, anyone who guesses who I derived her name from gets not a cookie, but a whole cake.)

"What are you reading?" "Words."

Meme stolen from cazcatharsis.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1.) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2.) Italicize those you intend to read.
3.) Underline those you love.
4.) Put an asterisk next to the books you’d rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read or read again.


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