Welcome back on this last day of the Cape Cursed book launch!
Bliss Sherman is the female lead of Cape Cursed and Parker Swain is her male counterpart. When I write a book, I take great care and
have a lot of fun naming my characters. One
of my other novels, A Shepherd’s Song,
is an allegory and all the main characters’ names have a tie-in. I’m
offering a $10 gift certificate to the OBX store to the first person who comments
on this blog and can correctly tell me the significance of the characters’
names in that novel.
I came up with the name Bliss Sherman for the female
protagonist in Cape Cursed because I
wanted a first name that would imply beauty and happiness, and for the last
name, I gave her Sherman. I’m not from
the South, but I know that the name Sherman still riles the blood there. I wanted Sherman to denote how Bliss was
coming to this beach and turning everyone’s life upside down much like the
Civil War’s General Sherman did.
I love how Southerners like to use surnames for first names. I thought the name Parker for the male
protagonist would imply something being stationery and reflect Parker’s view
that the lighthouse should not be relocated.
It also reflects how Parker and his family have been fixtures on the cape
for decades. Swain is an old-fashioned
word for a male suitor. I thought would
make a great last name for a romantic lead.
If you had to come up with the name for a character in a
romance novel, what would it be? I will
send a bookmark to all who leave a response.
Don’t forget to enter the raffle and tell your friends too.
Thanks for dropping by.
Janice
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