May 2021 6 5 Report

Using county names for people's name.?

I'm setting a book a Hollywood celebrity who is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend while he was on location in Eastern Kentucky filming a made-for-TV-movie. The setting will be a lightly fictionalized version of the county my grandmother lives in. Only the name has been changed from Breathitt County to Baker County.

While playing around with various naming conventions, I had the idea of having all the characters' names--first and last--taken from real county names.

Here are some examples:

Logan Butler, the Hollywood star, defendant

Jessamine Rockcastle, his girlfriend, a hand model whose birth name is Leslie Hopkins

Marshal Perry--Nancy Grace-inspired legal analysis

Fayette Johnson -- juror, retired grade school teacher

Todd Ballard -- juror, supermarket manager and on-again-off-again journalist student hoping to parlay his jury service into a bestselling book about the

Boone Wolfe, juror former coal miner, current trucker

Trig Lincoln, former Marine MP, current deputy sheriff

Owen Jackson, DA

Floyd Jackson, Owen's brother, local defense attorney hired by Butler

Boyd Jackson, Floyd's twin brother and his investigator

Whitley Pulaski, juror, a medical intern at the Regional Hospital, the only "outsider" on the jury, murder victim

Christian Jefferson, juror, electrician, Pulaski's and Rockcastle's murderer

Rowan Crittenden, trial judge

Update:

Q1: Is the naming convention too gimmicky?

Q2: Do the name "ring true"?

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