Every author either loves or struggles to give names to their characters. To me, it's both fun and also a challenge to choose the names that will either be believable or suit the style of whatever piece that I am writing. If it's a name from another culture or another language, it's best to do your research. That, in itself, is fascinating. When it came to finding a name for one girl in "The world of all things lost," I googled names from the West Indies and found the name Chevelle. It seemed to fit, and it was authentic.    The challenge is to choose names you would see in normal life, but sometimes you need that bit of imagination. I had a battle with the spell-checker when I chose the name Emily Dustan. It insisted that it should be Dunstone and would red-line it every time, But I was persistent and Dustan it is. I've no doubt that there are real Dustans somewhere in England. Sometimes an author will surprise themselves. In "Hide  and Seek I thought I had invented the Norman French name "Guillaume" But I discovered, unbeknown to me, that It was French for William.  Since then it has appeared several times in print and there's a photographer who is called Guillaume. What was more astonishing is that I got the spelling right!