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.