Names: A New Perspective Part 2

A little late, but I finally have the schedule of posts down. Post-NaNoWriMo blues and a massive reviewing/reading backlog plus my Advent Reviews series has kept me rather busy. Which reminds me, I still need to do that NaNoWriMo “after-action” report too! Ack! You can read any of the previous posts by using the series tag: “Names A New Perspective“. The previous line-up of authors is here. So, without further ado, here you are.

The first 3 entries are already up:

• Lee Collins, author of The Dead of Winter and the upcoming She Returns From War – “The Naming Scheme“.
• Bradley P. Beaulieu, author of The Winds of Khalakovo, and The Straits of Galahesh, and the upcoming The Flames of Shadam Khoreh – “I Love Names“.
• Janet Edwards, author of Earth Girl – “Friend or Foe“.

Upcoming Authors:

• 12th December, 2012 – Erin M. Evans, author of The Godcatcher, Brimstone Angels and Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils.
• 14th December, 2012 – Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham.
• 17th December, 2012 – David Guymer, author of the upcoming Curse of the Everliving, and Headtaker.
• 20th December, 2012 – Cassandra Rose Clarke, author of The Assassin’s Curse, and the upcoming The Mad Scientist’s Daughter.
• 27th December, 2012 – Jo Anderton, author of Debris and Suited.
• 3rd January, 2013 – Tim Marquitz, author of Prey and Armageddon Bound.
• 7th January, 2013 – Ciara Ballintyne, author of Deathhawk’s Betrayal.
• 10th January, 2013 – Jocelyn Koehler, author of The Way Through The Woods.
• 14th January, 2013 – Adam Christopher, author of Empire State, Seven Wonders, and the upcoming The Age Atomic.
• 17th January, 2013 – Amanda Carlson, author of Full Blooded and the upcoming Hot Blooded.

Those are all the confirmed authors who are participating. I have the following authors who will be committing to the series from next year:

• Chuck Wendig, author of Bait Dog, Blackbirds, and Mockingbird.
• Gareth Powell, author of The Recollection and Ack-Ack-Macaque.
• E. J. Swift, author of Osiris.

As you can see, I’ve expanded the potential roster to include authors who are not just “debuts”, but have been in the industry for a while. I’m really excited to show you all what methods and processes these fantastic people use when naming characters, and settings, etc. As usual, reviews of novels will be linked to in the guest posts, and I will try and do commentaries on the names within their novels, but I can’t guarantee that unfortunately. I tried to do that for the first set of posts, but that didn’t exactly work out. For authors who were expecting the commentaries, my sincerest apologies, as I’d promised those to you.

Hoping for an even better second run!

UPDATES:

Authors who have already participated:

• 21st January, 2013 - Christian Dunn, author of Dark Vengeance and Malediction.
• 24th January - Guy Haley, author of Reality 36, Omega Point, and Champion of Mars.
• 4th February - Aliette de Bodard, author of Obsidian & Blood, and Heaven Under Earth.
• 7th February - Zachary Jernigan, author of No Return.
• 11th February - Josh Reynolds, author of Knight of the Blazing Sun and Road of Skulls.
• 14th February - Marsheila Rockwell, author of The Shard Axe and Skein of Shadows.
• 18th February - Gav Thorpe, author of Ravenwing and The Sundering.
• 21st February - Matt Forbeck, author of Amortals, Carpathia, and the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World trilogy.
• 25th February - Betsy Dornbusch, author of Exile.
• 28th February – William C. Deitz, author of DeathDay and The Seeds of Man.
• 4th March – Joseph D’Lacey, author of Black Feathers.
• 7th March - Emma Newman, author of Between Two Thorns.
• 11th March – Martha Wells, author of Emilie and the Hollow World, and The Serpent Sea.
• 14th March – James K. Decker, author of The Burn Zone and Ember.
• 18th March – Wesley Chu, author of The Lives of Tao.
• 21st March – Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons.

Upcoming authors:

• 25th March - Eric Brown, author of Helix Wars and The Kings of Eternity.

Authors committed to the series:

• Brian McClellan, author of The Promise of Blood.
• Michael J. Martinez, author of The Daedalus Incident.
• Nathan Long, author of Swords of Waar and Bloodsworn.
• Nick Kyme, author of The Great Betrayal and Nocturne.