If you write for kids, be careful what you name your
characters.
One night at the Red Herring writer’s group, one of the
young mothers told of overhearing her 12 year old son and one of his friends
laughing about their school principal. “Who would name a kid dick?” they
chortled.
John Robert McFarland
Daughter Katie Kennedy’s Learning to Swear in America will be
published by J. K. Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury Press, in 2016.
My novel, VETS, about four handicapped and homeless Iraqistan veterans who
are accused of murdering a VA doctor, will be published by Black Opal Books in
2015.
I also write Christ in Winter: Reflections on Faith from
a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter. http://christinwinter.blogspot.com/
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