I spent an hour looking through the phone book for names, then realized I hadn’t held my usual “Name That Character” contest for this book. I’m writing a new Jackson story with the working title Liars, Cheaters, & Thieves, and I need lots of names. Suspects, victims, and witnesses.
I don’t want to give too much away, but the story involves three men, friends since high school. I’ve settled on the main character’s name, but I’m still open to what to call his friends. One is ex-military and an outdoors kind of guy, and the other is more of a techie.
But I also need names for bartenders, girlfriends, bankers, and homeless people! As info, most of the names you submitted for my last contest for The Arranger ended up in the book as contestants in the Gauntlet. So if you have a favorite name, enter it, and it could become part of this story. You can always submit your own name too.
Of course, one of these guys ends up dead, so feel free to submit the names of people you wouldn’t mind seeing bumped off.
I’ll pick a favorite submission, and the prize is a signed print book of your choice from the nine I’ve written (or two e-books if you prefer). I’ll also use as many of the submissions as I can and give an e-book to everyone who participates and contacts me with their email address.
Thanks for playing! This is also such good fun for me.
Hey, how about these:
Military guy: Matthew Phoenix
Tech guy: Merrill Newbold
Homeless guy: Prescott Sutton
Girlfriend: Opal Harriman
Bartender: Jules Montgomery
Patti (no that’s my name not a suggestion…)
Larry “Gizmo” Callahan — the techie
You could also use my name! — gary
OK – As I started this on your facebook page… LOL
Laura Bruhns or Laura McKinsey
Kyle Bruhns
Thanks for the opportunity!
Laura
Sue Bailey
Ken Bevil
Gil Cortez
Kay Mutch
Ted Flores
Ray Farrelly
Bill Gagnon
Bettye Heinrich
Rose Middleton
David Meadows
Jim Martin
Eve O’Young
Eloyce Rogers
Peggy Shepherd
Kay Towne
Josie Vaighn
Hi L.J.,
This is a great idea – I will don my thinking cap & come up with some names – back later after a long morning walk – thinking!
What fun!
Have to submit names of some of my favorite people 🙂
Females:
Angela Harvey
Zoe Otey
Kerri Otey
Nikki Reynolds
Jill Poindexter
Stephanie Kempf
Males:
Paul Harvey
Thanks! 🙂
OK – a few that came to mind this morning!
Clayton Grimes
Giselle Du Pre
Charles Harcourt-Floyd
Pete Jepsom
Francesca Coombs
If I think of any more I’ll be back!
Mandy
I love names … this is such fun, LJ …
Drew Sanborn
Kat MacDonald
Orley Arthur
Luella Harter
Mila Kruz
Charmaine Berens
Lotti Kim
Mark Ernest
Mike Bonay
Bob “Wags” Wagner
Jim “Heebie” Hebner
Jimmy Carlos
Nick Saint
Anny Bradshaw
Layton “Lay-Lay” Bradshaw
Bishop Bradshaw
Trey Abercrombie
Emery Leigh
Glenn Flash
King Au
Bill “Poopsie” Berry
Rusty Malone
Sylvia Joyce
Ooops … 2 more
Lola Renee
Chad Malone
Love this game! More in a bit.
For the bad guys:
Billy Marco
Claude Ward
Clark Hicks
Bad females:
Pam Eavenson
Jennifer Keyes
Kim Bradley
Shelia Mathews Dolan
Sissy Mathews Dolan
Shelia Dolan
Wally Dolan
Meredith Briscolino
Paul Briscolino
Gloria Bowman
More suggestions for BAD guy names:
Roy King
Fisher Covin
Steve Farrell
Jack Pittman
May I suggest the name “Hailey”? It’s my youngest daughters name, she is 1 and was diagnosed with a rare syndrome and will be having her second surgery next week. You are one of my fav authors and I just thought it’d be pretty cool story to tell her when she’s a little older.
Wow, this batch of names will last me through a couple of novels. A reminder to please email me if you participated and want a free ebook. Let me know which novel and whether you want a mobi (Kindle) or epub file. I’ll leave the contest open for a few days and still pick a print book winner, but I’m happy to start giving away ebooks to everyone who submitted names. Thanks!
I’m going to give you one I was going to use myself: Keegan O’Hara