Google Foo + Brain Dead = Stupid Conclusion

This is submitted for your amusement on this fine Thursday afternoon.

For one of my character names, I combined a couple of different names from mythology. "Ahti" is the nickname for Lemminkäinen from the Finnish mythic cycle Kalevala, and of course Achilles is our favorite Greek hero with the bad ankle. Together they became "Ahtilles" in my book.

Today on a whim, I googled the name just to see if it was used anywhere else.

I found this: "Ahtilles Saarel. First Centurion in the Third Legion, serving under the March Dux..."

Being a long day, my first thought was, "That was a Roman name?"

Then I realized that it was a quote from my own website...

We now return you to a hopefully less stressed world.


Recent News

July, 22 2010

Echoes of Truth is revised and polished. I'm ready to start querying agents, the next step in seeing this novel published. In the meantime, work on the Condotierre is underway. I'm as excited to start this new book as I am to have finished my last.

September, 2 2008

SAEtter.com version 2.0, the Professional Edition is now live! Feel free to explore the new site and features.

About the Author

While reading The Fellowship of the Ring at the age of twelve, Stuart A. Etter was told by his teacher that he should be reading shorter books. Undaunted, he finished the trilogy and promptly moved on to other novels ranging from fantasy/sci-fi to historical fiction to horror to thrillers.

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