Mara Ellison, site author

Mara Ellison

Mara writes speculative fiction and has run the same tabletop campaign since 2016. She covers fantasy and creative naming here, mostly from the angle of what a name does to a reader in the first line. Most of her work on Calmvivo is in the fantasy and creative lists. She tests each candidate the way she would in a manuscript: whether it can be said aloud without stumbling, whether it sits too close to a character everyone already knows, and whether the spelling points at the sound she means.