The Writer’s Little Book of Naming

Tips and Tricks for People, Places, and Things

Names and terms in a fictional setting should ideally be more than just random sounds thrown together. Award-winning fantasy author Marie Brennan leverages her anthropological background and her experience with seven different languages to guide you through the social side of naming: how it can reflect everything from gender to geographical origin, implying a whole three-dimensional world behind the words on the page.

My Patreon has touched on the topic of naming, but since I wanted to a deeper dive into the cultural aspects of that than my Patreon usually digs into — what components can go into a name; what meaning can be embedded in them — I’ve written an entire book on the topic! A booklet, anyway, as this one is quite short (if it were fiction it would be a novelette).

It is currently a BVC-exclusive title.