To be honest, I wrestled with the name of the male lead, Apollo. Lenore's name came more naturally, for reasons obvious to any reader of "The Raven." I want the Avia Saga to have some kind of mythic overtones, the resonance of the sacred, but I thought that maybe Apollo was too mythic. You know, too blindingly heavenly. The alternative was Neil, with its shades of kneeling down before forces greater than oneself. But I simply fell in love with the name Apollo, and I think writing is as much a love affair for the author, with its joys and sorrows, its trials and tribulations, as reading is for the reader. Or has the potential to be, if the author's love affair with the material bears fruit.