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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. The Choosing
    03:14
    The Choosing
  3. From a Mouse
    04:19
    From a Mouse
  4. To a Mouse
    02:42
    To a Mouse
  5. Tam o' Shanter
    05:50
    Tam o' Shanter
  6. Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:10
    Q&A with Liz Lochhead
  7. More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:56
    More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
  8. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  9. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  10. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  11. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  12. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  13. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  14. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  15. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  16. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
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