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The Naming of Characters in The Troubadours Quartet

Author and blogger Elizabeth Noreen Newton asked me how I created the characters’ names in The Troubadours Quartet. I had no idea that the answer would be so long!

There’s a list of characters at the beginning of ‘Song Hereafter’ and it gave me a shock to realise that I’d included a hundred real 12th Century historical characters and twenty-five main fictional ones in the four books of the quartet. That’s a lot of names! So, how did I come up with the names?

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