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Dear Mr. Coville,
JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER
is an awesome book. I love dragons! I was wondering how you get the characters' names?
Thank you,
Owen
JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER
is an awesome book. I love dragons! I was wondering how you get the characters' names?
Thank you,
Owen
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Owen -
Glad you liked JEREMY THATCHER. As to the names, naming is very important. Sometimes I am sending a message to a friend. Here's an example - I have a good friend, a librarian, named Cynthia Bishop. If you think about the name "Hyacinth Priest" you can see that "Hyacinth" is a bit like "Hi ya, Cynth" and a Bishop is a kind of Priest. So for that name I was playing a kind of private word game.
BC
Glad you liked JEREMY THATCHER. As to the names, naming is very important. Sometimes I am sending a message to a friend. Here's an example - I have a good friend, a librarian, named Cynthia Bishop. If you think about the name "Hyacinth Priest" you can see that "Hyacinth" is a bit like "Hi ya, Cynth" and a Bishop is a kind of Priest. So for that name I was playing a kind of private word game.
BC