Here’s a question for you, Dear Reader. What publisher would have taken Bram Stoker seriously if his villain had swept onto the page and said, in sepulchral tones, “I am Count Humperdink. I want to drink your blood”?
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“[T]hat which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” So Juliet says to Romeo, exhorting him to deny the name of Montague. “O be some other name!” But while Romeo is willing enough to throw … Continue reading
On the panel on trends in feminist science fiction at ArmadilloCon (panelists pictured above in a photo by Elze Hamilton), Stina Leicht observed that she consciously decided to use her given name as a byline when she started writing. But … Continue reading
When I began writing fiction, I decided to use my full name as my byline. There was a very practical reason for this: Nancy is the 12th most common female name in the U.S., while Moore currently ranks as the … Continue reading
After “where do you get your ideas from?” another really common question is “where do you get your names from?” — more than once I’ve been accosted by someone who actually owned the name in question. As with ideas, usually … Continue reading