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Hello,my name is Eliza Keating,i am a new author and would appreciate some help in promoting my new kids book Folk of Feodora's lane .So what better way than giving it away.Feodora is a girl who enjoys nothing more than spying on her rather peculiar  neighbours  there is Liza Plenty  who's gift for spinning yarns earns her a reputation and Ingrid  Clawed who is so cat crazy she raises her daughters more like felines than real girls how about Bessie Badstreak the intimadating old nurse who is about to get a taste of her own medicine Rosetta Little who is so obsessed with mirrors until her fixation with looking young sadly comes crashing down all around her and thats just for starters.

whats already been said about Folk of Feodora's lane

A darkly macabre but deliciously witty first novel.Folk of Feodora's laneis destined to become a childrens classic.Kids will soak up author Eliza Keating's ingenious wordplay,proving once and for all that reading can be fun.But beyond eachbizarre portaitis an important message about the strange cause and effect relationship of life,that what goes around comes around

IF you email me at feodora@fsmail.net and tell me why i should introduce you to  FEODORA..I promise to send the the 10 funniest reasons a signed copy ...a last request on reading Folk of Feodora's lane please,please submit a review on either amazon.com or amazon.uk. or barnes and noble..thanks Eliza Keating x

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About the Author

HI,my name is Eliza Keating,I was born in Glasgow/Scotland on the 1st september 1967.As a young child my family moved to the new town of East kilbride were i still live and work .I have two children the oldest a boy is twenty two and a little seven year old girl who was the total inspiration for my first kids book Folk of Feodora's lane,she had become somewhat bored of the books around for her age group and one day innocently asked me to write her a book....and so Folk of Feodora's lane was born .............

Are your kids a matched set?

When naming your children, did you (or will you) put any thought into how their names sound together? If so, what criteria would you use to make them complement each other?

Would you like it best if they all started with the same letter, rhymed, or ended with the same letter? Or would you like it best if they all had the same number of syllables or all contained a certain letter (e.g., Gavin, Eve, and Vaughn)? Or would you choose ones that had a similar origin (e.g., Italian or biblical) or similar vibe (e.g., trendy, traditional, old-fashioned, literary)? Or would you just pick names you liked, regardless of whether or not they complemented each other?

I think I tend to like it when siblings' names end in the same letter. It seems like a rather subtle way for them to coordinate, as long as there aren't too many kids. I like girls' names that end in A (Clara, Sonia, Eliza) and boys' names that end in S (Julius, Miles).

For sibsets, I like it best when the names are connected somehow without being too matchy. This could be through the first or middle name; I'm not picky. But yes, they should be connected in some way. I think the names should sound like a family- Rebecca, Michael, and Daisuke sounds a little wonky; as does Aiko, Fumiko, and Hannah.

For example, I'd never name two daughters Mikayla Destiny and Elizabeth Cecilia. If I were to use Mikayla and Destiny (not that I ever would), I'd do Elizabeth Mikayla and Cecilia Destiny, or Mikayla Elizabeth and Destiny Cecilia. That way, the first names of both are classic and the middles are trendy, or the other way around.

And when considering names for sibsets, I think if there are already two or three children whose names follow a pattern (whatever it may be, rhyming, colors, Japanese, ending in -a, anything), the next children's names should also follow it (unless it's very, very subtle/unnoticable and there are no other options). For example, Coral, Violet, and Ebony sounds so much better than Coral, Violet, and say, Jenna.

Also, I dislike when all children in a family have unisex names. This could just be my general distaste for unisex names talking, but I think it's a bit weird when the children are Rowan Morgan, Hayden Taylor, and Cameron Regan; you don't know who's who! If you insist on giving your children unisex names, you might at least give the girls feminine middle names and the boys masculine middle names. I mean, really.

As for the matching patterns, my favorite is when the names have the same origin/similar vibe, as in French names or classic/literary names. Same syllable names sound too contrived to me; if it happens by coincidence, ok, but I wouldn't match it so that the names shared the same number of syllables. Ditto with sibsets that share a letter. However, subtlety is key for me; sibsets like Charlotte and Scarlett, Hayden and Aiden, or even Scarlett and Violet don't appeal to me at all. I think the most important thing a parent can do in terms of this is to make sure they know the distinction between complementing names and coordinating names; it's a fine line. I want names to complement each other but still be very individual.

A few sibsets I'm currently considering should demonstrate this, what I'm looking for in a sibset (three girls', two boys'):

My favorite- French names. Since I was young, I've had a love affair with French names- all of them, even ones like Babette. There's something so beautiful and classy about them, and every single one I've come across is gorgeous. My only problem with them is that some of them are impossible to pronounce if you don't speak French, which is ok for me, but may be hard in the US:

Charlotte Vivienne
Lila Madeleine/Jacqueline/Julianne/Josephine (haven't quite decided yet)
Aveline Rosalie/Melisande/Mireille
Laurent Olivier (I love, love, love this, but the problem is that it's a long shot in the U.S; if I thought I could get away with it, I most definitely would)
Alain Christophe (again- could be a bit of a problem in the U.S., but I'd absolutely go for it if I thought I could)

The second has a bit of an old-fashioned/classic/literary feel. I've taken inspiration from some of my favorite books/authors (James McAvoy's "Atonement", Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind", and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"

Cecilia Jane
Christopher James (I loved Ashley [Wilkes, if you're a book aficionado like I am] in the middle spot here; I wanted to use it so badly. But in today's day and age, a boy named Ashley, even in the middle, would never hear the end of it. Which is a real shame.)
Katherine Scarlett (Or Sara Scarlett; I love both but I usually dislike when first and middle names are alliterated)
Margaret Elizabeth
Charles William (I was really, really, REALLY tempted to make it Fitzwilliam, both because I actually like it better and because of Mr. Darcy, but I figured my poor child would never forgive me; that's the only reason.)

And then, lastly, I don't think I'd ever use it, but it's gotten a few laughs:

Cecilia
Amelia
Claudia

Three favorites of mine, but never in the same sibset, because they all happen to be maladies. Cecilia means "blind", Claudia is "lame", Amelia is a birth defect that results in a child being born lacking a limb or limbs.

Wonderful question!

ETA: I just looked over this and realized it's a really, really long answer. I'm sorry =/

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