Who’s your favorite side character (from any novel, yours or otherwise!) that you think deserves their own spinoff, and why? That book means a lot to me, as both a writer and a person. The main character, visiting home again after his father has passed away, and remembering things worth remembering forgetting them again, no matter how hard he tries not to… Instead, it was a story of memory-why we choose to remember things the way we do, why our brains hold onto one series of threads while letting another slip away. evil, a story of being brave and fighting off your darkest fears, even when they manifest as real dangers. The entire lens of the story changed for me: it was no longer this story of good vs. The magic in particular was this sort of every day, ordinary magic, dueling forces of good and evil, and what that looks like through the eyes of a child-or a grownup.īut then I read it again in 2015, and I was a different person because I had lost my dad, and the main character’s entire reason for visiting the ocean at the end of the lane after all his years away was for his father’s funeral. I was in love with the voice, the strange women who lived at the end of the lane, and the magic. There are a couple of reasons for this.įirst, something about this book captivated me when it first came out in 2013. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Tell me about a comfort read and how it shaped you as an author.
Because that’s what it comes down to for me: does the name feel right for the person/place/thing it will represent in readers’ minds? When the right name shows up, I feel it in my gut.
I use random name generators an absurd amount, rifling through dozens and dozens of page refreshes before finding something that feels right. Sometimes I draw from the Cherokee syllabary/language or insert names from my childhood. It might be my sort of quirky, competing morticians in a paranormal romance with the surnames Strange and Od, or my main character in the Coyote & Crow novel I wrote named Niya (which means “quiet” in the language of their world, Kag Chahi a fitting name for a quiet, determined character like her). Naming literally anything is hard as hell! But I’ll tell you what I love: finding the right name. Characters! Books! Where do you struggle, and what do you love? By night, however, she gives writing a go!
I was excited to interview Tali Inlow for Five with Fisher! A queer Native woman and a writer of fantastical nonsense, Tali is a healthcare professional by day with the federal government.
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