I have been noodling around with ideas for Book 4. Today, I send a long list of bullet points to my agent about what the idea is and who the characters are.

When I was in middle school, my friend Patti and I made up soap opera characters. We wrote about their exploits in spiral notebooks we'd pass back and forth. We'd cut out photos of these people from catalogs and paste them into the notebooks. The characters had ridiculous names like Dirk McDiggory. Their names were pretty much exactly like the ones I made up for my Book 4 characters yesterday. Some of these names will absolutely have to change, but so far we have:

Kit Sheffield

Felicia McIntyre

Shirl Lovelace

I already changed that last one because really. Enough is enough.