Sarah Kanning

If you are really, truly, very bad at naming characters, and you write fantasy fiction, here at last is help: the Fantasy Name Generator.

I wish I could think of the author who did this, but I was reading about someone (whose writing I respect and whose invented names generally went well with her characters – that much I can remember) who looked around at her bookshelves and took random syllables from the names of the authors on the spines and mashed them together. (Maybe it was Laurie J. Marks of the Earth Logic series?)

If you know, Dear Reader, please aid my recollection. (And if you have any other wonderful tricks for naming characters, please share them!)