Name my Brainchild
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Roxanne Appleby
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One caveat on Gabriel and offshoots: It sounds a bit like a Jewish lawyer. Not that I have anything against Jewish lawyers, but that's not exactly the strong tough-guy image I envision for our Willie. He's got "Clint" written all over him. 
CrimsonMaiden
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Nick Saber has about 644,000 hits on google.
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I'd drop the Nick and just go with Saber.
That's memorable. Seriously.
Edited to add: It's kind of brilliant, actually. I'll PM you my invoice.
Hmm
Just Saber?
Ya know . . . I kind'a like that . . . .
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Yeah, I Googled it, but most of the hits weren't about anyone with that specific name except for some IT guy in Boston.
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Prest Pantz?
Somebody stop me!
Vodka spew.
starrkers
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Current suggestions (apologies if I missed any)
Nicholas Van Outen
aka Nick the Stripper
Van Wondoren
Nicholas (Nicky) van Houten.
Howzat buddy?
Gabe Preston.
I was gonna say Mome Rath Out Gabe but that would be making fun.
Sabre would make me laugh and walk away. Saber is better.
I think one syllable first name, two for the last is good-- also three in the first, one in the last like
Gabriel Nicks
Dick Le Sabre
Dirk Nichols.
You want a marketable name?
For that, I would have to charge a fee.
How about Prest Gabeson? (That one's free.)
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In the case of the suggested name above
Just can't picture it in a Buick, tried
Wife drives a Century
shereads
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The single-name thing isn't common in publishing, but it is done - esp. in erotica/romantica. I think it's a lot more memorable than Nick Saber, and it makes a statement: "I don't need a 'normal' name. I'm Saber. If you can't deal with that, go away."
Sexy.
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One caveat on Gabriel and offshoots: It sounds a bit like a Jewish lawyer. Not that I have anything against Jewish lawyers, but that's not exactly the strong tough-guy image I envision for our Willie. He's got "Clint" written all over him.
I can't be a Clint. Had a childhood friend who was a real asshole by that name.
Just can't be a Clint. Sorry.
Besides . . . I'm not quite that macho.
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:caning:
slyc_willie
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I might also be setting myself up with a name like that, though.
Could be seen as presumptuous.
shereads
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Presumption is sexy.
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I don't like Gabe Rath. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was Babe Ruth.
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Glad someone else thought that.
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Just can't picture it in a Buick, tried
Wife drives a Century
Hmmm...gotta point there.
Need a ginormous back seat--a Lincoln limo?
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If I wrote only darker stuff, I could see it. I like the way the name sounds, but it does have a rough connotation to me.
Never thought about the 'Babe Ruth' thing, though, but that's a good point.
More I think about it, the more I like sheread's suggestion.
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Yeah, the single name gets a bit silly.
If you put the name in quotes, "Nick Saber" only comes up with 238 pages in Google.
If you put the name in quotes, "Nick Saber" only comes up with 238 pages in Google.
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So? If you don't like it I'll slice your ass!
*works with an Errol Flynn smirk*
Lol
"Have you read Saber's latest?"
"Saber has a new novel out!"
Hmm . . . .
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Damn, Starr.
Didn't think the list was that big.
Anything to stop me from going and writing myself out of the hole I dug a character into yesterday
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If you go with what seems to be the unpopular spelling of Sabre, Nick Sabre only comes up as 16 google pages. That's was one of the main things I looked at when I picked my name. It sent back very few hits. Now when you plug it in, most of those hits are me.
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Ha! Silly? SILLY? And Nick Saber doesn't sound like the brooding hero of "The Rakehell's Clever Garrote?"
I am a marketing professional. An unemployed one, granted.
But still easily insulted. I'm leaving the room to pout now.
Edited to add: I have named laundry detergents, dammit! And you have bought them! Now that's difficult.
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Roxanne Appleby
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I can't be a Clint. Had a childhood friend who was a real asshole by that name.
Just can't be a Clint. Sorry.
Besides . . . I'm not quite that macho.
Nobody's that macho. But your readers don't have to know that.
Nick Vander Veldt. You lose the Eastwood association, but keep the out-of-Africa one, and perhaps pick up a little Hemingway along the way (a' la' Nick Adams.) Plus some mnemonically-beneficial alliteration. Not bad . . .
BTW, I'm not enamoured of phallic-symbol names for a male porn writer. It seems kind of tacky, and perhaps even a bit disrespectful of the audience, as if you need to really belabor the obvious for them.
