The Garies and Their Friends

This book has a fairly large and interesting cast of characters. We have the Garies and their children, the Ellis’ and their children, the Stevens and their children, and a whole host of other characters that are either friends, associates, or business partners with one or more of the families listed above. There’s nothing wrong with having a lot of characters (as long as your audience can keep them straight in their minds), but it can become a problem–an injustice, really–when super awesome characters get overlooked and hidden in the shadows of the bigger characters who are contributing to the main plot.

Mrs. Bird, I’m looking at you.

I mean, come on guys! Did no one else just love Mrs. Bird? My new goal in life is to get rich enough to be able to just take in controversial wards for the heck of it, and to lord my money and power over those who would put him or her down. If I can’t be rich enough to give someone a higher education, then I at least want to have even a fraction of the sass Mrs. Bird uses to tell her staff off when they mistreat Charlie.

These are my new priories, and I stand by them.