The Name Game Contest

Want to see your name in lights? Fifteen winners will be given the chance to name a character after themselves or a friend in one of Jeff's upcoming novels. Here's all you have to do. Send an email to Jeff with the correct answers to both of these questions.

Easy, right? Wrong. Here are the questions:

“What is the name of Marianne O’Hara’s bodyguard in Nevada?”

and

“What is Nicholas Foley’s real name?”

Nevada? Marianne? Nicholas? What?

Well, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be worth it, right? Here’s your only hint. There is one faint clue to this puzzle in Jeff’s bio. Good luck. Winners will be notified immediately, but Jeff reserves the right to ask winners to give their character a different name if their first choice is too close to the name of an established character.

Winners So Far...

* Susan Tunis, California.

* Resonant Frequency, an anonymous online personality, has also answered the quiz correctly, and submitted the name Tanya Huff to use for a character.

* Micki Rezac, Nebraska.

* Lewis Bornmann, California.

* Elizabeth Kleier answered the quiz correctly and submitted the name of her daughter, Emily Flint, to use as a character.

* Joshua E. Morrison, California.

* Dirk Walls, another winner from California (I think this game must be rigged!).

* Matthew J. Harrington answered the quiz correctly and submitted the name of his friend, James Patrick, to use as a character.

* Rebecca Drayer, New York.

* Johnny Bowen, Arkansas.

* Sean Walsh, California.

* David Hoyer, West Virginia.

* Rick Fuelling, U.K.

...And Where They Ended Up

* Marine PFC Susan Tunis in "Plague War." Killed In Action.

* NSA Special Agent Michelle Rezac in "Plague Zone." Killed In Action.

* Army Ranger Tanya Huff in "Plague Zone." Killed In Action.

* USAF Air Commando Lewis Bornmann in "Plague Zone." Killed In Action.

* Marine General Dirk Walls in "Plague Zone." Survives?

* Math teacher Josh Morrison in "Colony High."  Face ripped off by freaky alien lizard hordes.

* High school student Sean Walsh in “Colony High.”  Incinerated by improvised explosive device.

* Computational biologist Emily Flint in the Secret New Big Thriller Novel.  Survives?

* Navy Warrant Officer James Patrick in the Secret New Big Thriller Novel. Killed In Action.

* NSA Agent Rebecca Drayer in the Secret New Big Thriller Novel. Killed In Action.

* National Guard Colonel Johnny Bowen in the Secret New Big Thriller Novel.  Survives?

* David Hoyer is too similar in name to one of the Secret New Big Thriller Novel's heroes, ROMEO Agent Drew Haldane, so David has agreed to wait patiently for Jeff’s next novel. Since this will be something of a wait, unfortunately, David was also awarded a cameo appearance in the Secret New Big Thriller Novel as the USS Hoyer, an Aegis cruiser in the carrier strike group featured in the book. Destroyed in battle.

* Navy Captain Rick Fuelling in the Secret New Big Thriller.  Killed In Action.