cui dono lepidum novum libellum

[swan_tower]

Last week, on a Tuesday when absolutely nothing else was happening at all, I put out a little book -- and I do mean little. It's right there in the title: The Writer's Little Book of Naming, an 11K-ish headfirst dive into the sociocultural side of naming -- particularly for people, but also a bit for places and things. It looks less at the conlang questions of phonetics and such, more at the ways names can reflect culture and, in so doing, help reinforce and deepen other aspects of worldbuilding.

This is actually the first installment of what I intend to be an irregular series, because it occurred to me one day that ebooks make it possible to assemble works on fairly specialized topics of craft -- the kinds of topics that can't really support an entire print volume, and which appeal to a niche market of writers, but dammit, I want to write about them, so here goes. I've got about six of these in mind thus far, so I'll update as they make it out into the world!

(FYI, it is currently available only through Book View Cafe, the publisher.)