{"id":13603,"date":"2013-01-30T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=13603"},"modified":"2013-02-25T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T03:54:27","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=13603","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?attachment_id=13606\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13606\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13606\" title=\"Ghost Key comp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Ghost-Key-comp.jpg?resize=196%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, when I started writing <em>Esperanza<\/em>, our neighbors\u2019 daughter stopped by one afternoon to say hi to Megan, who was home on a break from college. Madison \u2013 Maddie &#8211; was four then, a fearless cutie curious about everything. She\u2019s still that way. Show her a bug, a reptile, even a rodent and she\u2019ll figure out a way to pick it up without getting bitten so she can examine it. A biologist in the making.<\/p>\n<p>When I was casting around for names for my <em>Esperanza<\/em> characters, that name, Maddie, kept pushing up against me. I knew one of my characters had to have that name. My protagonist\u2019s 17-year-old niece got the honor.\u00a0 My Maddie probably won\u2019t pick up reptiles and snakes, but has an otherwise fearless approach to life, just like\u00a0 our neighbor Maddie. <em>I must find the answers on my own.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After Maddie\u2019s mom read <em>Esperanza<\/em>, she asked if the character Madison was named after her daughter. You got it, I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it, I just knew it. Okay, so what happens to her in the sequel? You\u2019ve left us hanging &#8211; Dominica just took over Maddie\u2019s body and fled Esperanza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what happens yet.&#8221; At the time, I was still writing <em>Ghost Key.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ghost Key,<\/em> The sequel to <em>Esperanza<\/em>, was actually two books. The first one took place in Hood River, Oregon, my agent hated it, my editor wasn\u2019t crazy about it. So I rewrote it and set it on Cedar Key, Florida. I had spent only a week in Hood River, on vacation, and should have known it would never work as a location. With just a couple of exceptions, my 35 novels have taken place in Florida or in imaginary places.\u00a0 If I write about a place, I have to <em>know<\/em> that place.\u00a0 I loved Hood River, but I wasn\u2019t there long enough to get to <em>know<\/em> it. I\u2019ve lived in Florida off and on since 1963. I <em>know<\/em> Florida. Big difference for a writer.<\/p>\n<p>So I rewrote the novel, which took about seven months,located the story in Florida, primarily on Cedar Key, \u00a0and the story worked. It\u2019s about what happens to Maddie after Dominica seizes her and flees Ecuador. When Maddie\u2019s mom finished GK, she stopped by the house, hands on her hips, and grinned. \u201cOkay, in this next book, Trish, you have got to include an inside joke. I mean, you\u2019re already using my daughter\u2019s name. So now use something that only you and I and our families will get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m happy to report that such a scene worked its way into <em>Apparition. <\/em>\u00a0I ran across it this evening, as I was reading through the revision notes my editor sent. \u00a0It involves these guys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?attachment_id=13615\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13615\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13615\" title=\"IMAG0018\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMAG0018.jpg?resize=249%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the kitty gargoyles<\/p>\n<p>Copper\u00a0 &#8211; neighbors\u2019 cat &#8211; and our Simba cat, look like twins. They came into our and\u00a0 respective lives within just a week or so of each other. Copper has amber eyes, Simba has green eyes, that\u2019s the quickest way to tell them apart. Some mornings when I wake up with an orange cat meowing at the bathroom window to get out, I think it\u2019s Simba. It turns out to be Copper. In <em>Apparition<\/em>, Copper is named Cobre, the Spanish equivalent.\u00a0 So there it is, Maddie\u2019s mom. The end of chapter 3, the inside joke!<\/p>\n<p>And thank you for naming your daughter Maddie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, when I started writing Esperanza, our neighbors\u2019 daughter stopped by one afternoon to say hi to Megan, who was home on a break from college. 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