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Officially decided on the first and last names for the MCs of my next book, Night Of The Blue Moon! I went with…*Drumroll*

Ariel Gianapoulou

Solana Bellamy

As for why I chose them…Ariel is the name of one of Uranus’ moons, and Uranus is the father of the titans in Greek Mythology. Ariel gets her powers from Phoebe, the titan of prophecy, intellect, and the moon. Gianapoulou is the feminine form of Gianapoulous, which is derived from the Greek form of John, meaning ‘God is gracious’. Ariel is working directly with the titans, as well as Hades and Hecate. Also, she’s half Greek on her father’s side, and it felt wrong for me to write about Greek mythology without a Greek protagonist. When I wrote The Tengu And The Angel, I knew that the only way I could make the tengu imagery work was with a Japanese protagonist, so I applied the same principle here.

As for Solana, Solana means ‘sun’, and Solana’s magical girl name is Red Sun, which she chose just to match Ariel’s magical girl name, Blue Moon. Bellamy is a surname believed to be of Saxon, possibly French origin, which roughly translates to ‘beautiful friend’, which totally describes Solana. She’s known for being very, very naturally beautiful, and she’s a kind soul who wants to make the world a better place.

Ok I’m done ranting about my latest batch of silly gays now bye-