A. Not really. For the first several months of the first draft, before he enters the story in Part II, he was known in the […]

A: Feigning politeness, it depends on the book. Oh, you mean this one? We have data. The author began writing page one on June 29, […]

A. The Author won’t say, but he also claims that any intrepid reader of detective fiction can figure it out from clues salted in the […]

A: Yes, many do. Some have both. A few names or places, like the name Luana, TR’s mother, are a wink or nod to an […]

A: Don’t nobody print this page out.

A: Undoubtedly not. Who would accept, for example, “Hiawatha Schwartz”?

A: To the best of the author’s knowledge. Before committing a name to manuscript, the author webbles (the author’s preferred term for “runs a Google […]

A: As of publication date, 900-plus.

A: Most come from a list of Potential Character Names the author has been maintaining for more than a quarter century. Some come from corruptions […]

A: Yes.