You’d think that someone who spends her days creating and naming characters might have gotten the hang of it by the time she had to name some actual humans. That’s what I thought, at least. In fact, I was rather smug about it …
So begins my guest post on Nameberry, a very cool baby name site that’s the brainchild (so to speak — yes, I did) of bestselling writers Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz.
Even someone who names fictional people for a living can make mistakes when naming real live babies. Like when I named my three sons: Eli, his brother William, and his other brother William.
Read more here.
I wrote about what I learned in the process of writing Bird in Hand — not about writing, but about life. You can read the post 