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Dear BDH,

As you know, sometimes we use certain writers to help us illustrate our blog posts. It has been brought to our attention that they need to be named.

We will start with the fan favorite: Working Writer Man, the one we all know and love.

Yes, we are talking about you. What are you doing?

Oh you’re working. So sorry to disturb. How is it going?

You’re feeling inspired. How nice. Pass some of that inspiration my way. Do you think you’re going to meet your deadline?

We will leave you to your pain.

Leave you naming suggestions below, one name per reader. Comments with multiple names will be removed to avoid confusion. Multiple comments from the same readers will be removed also. You have one shot, so make it count. If you see the name you like, comment +1 under it. We will gather top suggestions and make a poll so you can vote on them.

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  9. Willy Wiggleweapon (nickname one of my high school friends came up with for William Shakespeare).

  45. Meti Culous III. (I split up meticulous).
    Because as writers I feel like thats how you guys go over your work to give us the great worlds and characters. And the the 3rd because he looks like he come from a line of successful writers.

    • shoot! apparently I’m two days late. I also see Jack White any time they use these images, so I just commented Jack Write and then started scrolling through the HUNDREDS of suggestions. I am both saddened to realize I’m not the first/cleverest to suggest this but also gladdened to feel someone out there thinks like me…

  61. Snape Jr. because he really reminds me of what I imagine a relative Severus Snape would look like!

  64. Alfred P. Writerman (pronounced writermun). Alfie for short if he is feeling whimsical. No one knows what the P stands for. It’s a closely guarded secret.

  66. Ok if anyone has watched the Witcher he very much reminds me of Jaskier! His facial expressions just fit so well!!!!

  79. His first name is something, but he uses his middle name as his muse. His middle name is William.

  81. Beverly Pratt.

    I’m reading late 18th century biographies right now and Beverly has caught me several times being a man’s name rather than a woman’s. And Pratt in homage to Spike from Buffy, whose real last name was Pratt and who was an angsty poet before he was turned.

  91. These are all such great names! I’m glad I picked mine before looking, or this list would have sent me into choice paralyzation.

    • I thought Peirre (no last name) but after watching David D’s David D. says post of the eurovision contestant im totally onboard with Edgar 🙂

      David D. says
      July 12, 2023 at 4:22 pm

      I thought the same thing, but only because I’ve listening to this song too much.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmLeV47Au4

      Reply

  95. Ed Letterman. combines the editor with the wordsmith 🙂 plus it reminds me of Ed Vedder and I enjoy me some Pearl Jam.

  108. Crispin Bartholemew-Dubois.
    He looks like a double-barrelled name kinda guy
    Crispin Bartholomew to show his Englishness and that hair has Crispin written all over it.
    Dubois from his maternal French side of the family – I see that jaunty beret

  168. lol Came to Name him Edgar, Edgar Wittman. Seems many like the Edgar already. Any idea what the model’s real name is? Will he hate Edgar?

    • For some reason I went to Alfred as well & as Batman’s loyal valet it fits.

      We already have Derek as Boy wonder even though he has passed the boy wonder stage … we now need an Alfred!

  179. For some reason, possibly due to the variety of hilarious expressions I want to tack on “the Emotional “ as in – John the Emotional

  200. Godfrey.

    (Last name possibly Higginbotham. Plus a lot of middle names, to fit in all the gems on this comments board!)

  213. Too bad he wasn’t a she. Then we could name her Lorna Sterling after Andrea’s favorite author.

  214. Could we vote on the top 5 or 10 names? There are a lot of names on this list already and some people may not scroll through the page to view them all.

  219. oh…I’m leaning towards Augustus the Author. Because an author must assume many faces 🙂

  235. He is already named “Ichabod” in my head, whatever his official name turns out to be, hehe.

  267. Algernon Fitzwilliam Frobisher.

    Definitely Algernon, my husband thought he looked like a Frobisher, and he seemed to need a third part to his name!

  299. Francis Quill. He just looks like a Francis, (never-answers-to-Frank). And well, Quill is a given, haha.

  334. Oscar Featherstonehaugh.
    (I’ve been weirdly fascinated by that last name since I learned it’s pronounced “FAN-shaw”. English is a very strange language, even for the native speakers. And Oscar is named for Oscar Wilde.)

  335. i think he looks like an Edgar. and i liked Bookman for a last name until i saw McQuill, and Quillman, because he HAS to have quill in his name. but then i saw Quillsbottom and descended into giggles and i think Edgar Quillsbottom is the best.

    • omg. I didn’t realize Edgar had already been suggested. Submitted name before I read the comments.

    • There was a trend in Quebec a couple of decades ago with parents who wanted to give both their surnames to theirs kids* and to top it off, two first names as well because why not. We have now a generation full of people with 4 names.

      * We don’t change our last name when we get married, and we don’t get married as much as other cultures, so this trend was somewhat logic,

  366. Roland – LOL

    To keep with the tower building and mythology theme :

    Yahweh
    Marduk
    Thoth since he was the Consort to Seshat….

  371. He looks like a “Collins”
    Remember William Collins from Pride and Prejudice? 😂

  378. Bertrand Dewey Hammerschmidt-McScriven III (for the BDH, plus he looks like a Bertrand to me) 😊

    Thank you so much for this! 🥰🤗

  380. I think he looks like an Edgar. In full, that would be Edgar Raven Amontillado.

  384. I think he looks like an Emmanuel and despite over 500 comments (!) no-one has suggested it. No diminutives of course, he’s far too strait-laced but behind his back we can all call him Emmy.

  391. I have always loved that raised eyebrow. Bartholomew. (Interestingly, spell check tried to make it Bartholdi, heh)

  405. reminded me of Oscar Wilde, so Oscar, Edger Penn-Bookman is my choice to borrow from the entries I saw earlier plus my own idea.

  428. Geoffroy Sholokhov.

    If this image personifies your muse, it would be nice for it to take names from a well known writer of English, and a Russian one as well. Imagine the voice of Sean Connery speaking this name out loud.

    Yummy!

    • Oh no, that made me think Captain Ramias (sp) of Red October, LOL. One ping, and one ping only!

      • And then I got onto Ramias of the Knife (sp) from Sherwood Smith’s Norsunder books… In this case perhaps Ramias of the Quill?

  433. Felicity Fallopian Ravensfeather. He responds to Ian.

    True story…when one of my friends getting her citizenship, she wanted to choose a middle name because she didn’t have one. She wanted it to start with “Fe” to match her dad’s name of Felix. She didn’t know a lot of English at the time, so she came very close to picking Felony as a name because it sounded nice.

    • +1! Our writerly gentleman looks like a cross between the mime artist and Ross’ monkey. 🙂

  443. He reminds me of Tim Curry from his portrayal of The Butler in Clue, so Tim. I would call him Tim.

  445. Off topic ; I just finished listening to Magic Tides/ Magic Clams. It is delightful. Perfect voices.
    Now I’m wondering when Luther is going to move to the new keep. So many wonderful things for him to poke at.

  459. Augustus Montegue
    Born to wealth, at the age of 15 he graduated with honors from Yale. Professor Montegue is head of the Literature Department at Harvard, and recently took a sabbatical to work in his current project, An Encyclopedia for the 21st Century. On top of all of his many achievements in the academic world, He is also very well known to the general public through his very popular advice column: Life Lessons for Bibliophiles.

  460. “Jeff Jeffty Jeff, born on the first of the Jeff, Nineteen Jefty-Jeff”

    –Eddie Izzard

    (he just looks like a Jeff to me)

  463. He looks like a Darwin G. Doolittle.
    The hair and the feather makes me think of Darwin, “G” can srant for good or just be mysterious, and Doolittle goes with how playful he looks and implies he is posing and actually doing little…

  466. Ok. I’m terrible at remembering names (especially classic writers – unless I’ve been listening to lectures on them, especially since I’ve not ever gotten around to reading their writings – but I proffer this one ‘tongue in cheek’:

    Arthur the Author (the other one was more along the lines of Homer Simpson’s d’oh! in terms of humor)

  471. BARTHOLEMEW:
    Popularity:8128. Origin:Aramaic. Meaning:Son of Talmai (the farmer) Bartholomew is a boy’s name with Aramaic roots. This regal name means “son of Talmai (the farmer).” Talmai is a Hebrew name meaning “abounding in furrows,” making Bartholomew a name with a hidden earthy side behind a sophisticated exterior.

  480. Gustave de la Âme.*

    As he tells people (frequently), his name reflects the true nature of the work he offers the world.

    *It was originally Geoff Henderson but Gustave (or Guff, as his younger sister calls him) felt that that wasn’t really him, plus changing it got him out of having to spend his valuable time explaining to the ignorant that it was Geoff with a G, not a J, and that the E, O and 2 F’s reflected the original medieval French spelling.

  496. Aristide Durand – He looks like that “seasoned academic” that would love a name with meaning. Aristide “the best” paired with Durand “enduring”, the wish of many a writer.

  499. Lots of good name suggestions, but he definitely needs numbers, III or IV. He has that air of “I have Important Family Connections”.

  505. After some digging, I found out who this fine fellow is – his name was Mortimer St John Puddleton, a scion of a cadet branch of the Shropshire Puddletons, who were the Earls of Justawhimsey. His cousin, the 11th Earl, whose breeding was so refined as to make him almost comatose, asked young Mortimer to join his household as both the Librarian (the library at Justawhimsey would make a monk weep) and Factor Factotum for the Estate (as he and none of his offspring could rub two thoughts together). Mortimer apparently leapt at the opportunity, as his branch of the family Puddleton had the misfortune of investing in a shipment of tea to the then Colonies that was seriously damaged by a band of upstart revolutionaries. The only other thing I could find was a notation that he lived out his days in peace and harmony and died a very old man. Unfortunately, the Earldom of Justawhimsey was abandoned when the 15th Earl died trying to mount ice skates on his favorite Hunter and the horse took exception. Alas, nothing remains of the fine house and even finer library.

    • I can definitely see the Edgar and the Raven, LOL. Edgar Raven the Third. Or to riff on others: Raveningquill. (he of the ravening Quill, LOL). Or Edgar Je Revien (I come back, to come back, as in makes snappy come backs?) *Inspired by the Perfume Je Revien by Worth of the same name

  513. I’ve always thought he looked like a younger version of Ludwig van Beethoven, based on that famous painting of him writing music. So with a germanic variation of above suggests,

    Ludwig van Bookmann

  519. Mercurial. Full name Mercurial Sebastian Kensington.

    A man who, true to his name, has ever changing, yet humorous, mood swings and is no stranger to taking the proverbial side trip when it comes to ideas and possibilities. A man whose editor has nails bitten to the quick because Mercurial has a habit of changing his mind more frequently than usual as the deadline approaches.

    He takes tea over coffee, not because he finds it more calming or sophisticated, but because his absolutely precious, irreplaceable assistant (his words that Mercurial demanded I include in this intro) has threatened numerous times to have his name legally changed to that of the squirrel from Hoodwinked. After he came across the legal papers his assistant had him sign while he was (as usual) distracted, he realized there were some battles he would have to lose if he were to maintain some semblance of dignity.

    Mercurial may be odd, a bit disheveled in appearance at times (most of the time), but he is a working writer man…as described needed in the above post.

  527. He reminds me of Severus Snapes (Alan Rickman) in Harry Potter. So Percival Snapes.

  531. I read down a ways & did not see my choice, so I’ll enter it, with apologies if it has already been proposed.

    Charles Dickens or Dickens for short.

  536. His name is Aloysius Bunstable. He driven, intense and more than a little manic. Fueled by tea, he pens florid prose and collapses in despair when he’s assigned an editor with a penchant for Hemingway.

  546. Antoine de Bustarde, Marquis de la Snarque; Comte des Coullion; Sieur de Fartre, auteur et gentilhomme

    Bien sûr

  548. I had seriously considered Theophilus Shickel, because how could you be anything but a writer when your mother named you that. However, since looking through the suggestions, I have to go with Edgar.

  550. I’ll step away from my original thoughts of Wilbur (why did I go to the Wright Brothers?) and Sebastian, and go for Bastion.

    Also, if I ever saw that young man on the street, I’d want to shout him a beer, just to listen to him. With that expressive face, what a storyteller!!

  560. I had a hard enough time naming my kids. I’ve got nothing. but I’m invested in seeing how it turns out. . .

    can’t wait for the naming of the guy who writes lounging in bed

    I wonder what these model guys think IRL.

  570. Tarquil Harold Edgar Brunhild De Havihand of Hame Androcles

    Quill Handy to very close friends

  581. He looks like a William Quillspur to me… 😋

    Side note, Thank you for saving my sanity with your writing. Like a true BDH, I wait with bated breath for our next hit.

  584. He looks like a Chauncey to me, but that name doesn’t seem to have much traction, so my vote will be for Edgar.

  590. Earnest T. Huffington (the T is just a letter, it doesn’t actually stand for anything)

  598. Edgar Archibald Scribblebottom, because … that fantastic video demands an Edgar, and I like Scribblrbottom, too.

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