Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Lightbulb Moment

After some serious thinking and heavy browsing of my Oxford Dictionary of First Names, I've finally found the perfect nickname for my unfortunate secondary character in the WIP: Dodo! (From rabbit to extinct bird - that's not such a big improvement, is it?) And here he is, the Honourable Adolphus Fenton Cole:

With a thunder of hooves the man who was rumoured to be the least well-favoured gentleman of all of London rode up to their landau. His light-blond hair, or what could be seen of it below his hat, bore a strong resemblance to straw; his nose had once been called a potato-shaped appendage; and his hands were as big as the blade of a large - a very large - spade.

1 comments:

Julie said...

Sandra,
Just finished all three of your books and thoroughly enjoyed them. Also enjoying your blog! Can't wait for Dodo!

-Julie
Franklin, TN USA