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    By Any Other Name
    By Any Other Name
    By Any Other Name
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    By Any Other Name

    By Brenda W. Clough

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    Every person, place and thing in fiction needs a name. This book helps you find them.

    One of the ongoing chores for a writer is naming: naming people, places, or things. This book is designed to help every writer find, or make up, the names to make a fiction fly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrenda W. Clough
    Release dateNov 23, 2022
    ISBN9781636320687
    By Any Other Name
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    Brenda W. Clough

    Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her novella ‘May Be Some Time’ was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Her latest time travel trilogy is Edge to Center, available at Book View Café. Marian Halcombe, a series of eleven neo-Victorian thrillers appeared in 2021.  Her complete bibliography is up on her web page, brendaclough.net

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