LOL, Laura. It's funny when that "original" character name turns out to belong to our long lost best friend from second grade, isn't it?
Or there's always Debby Stark's solution from her Dawning series. She'd said that she'd had to come up with so many characters that she ran out of ideas, so she started taking FoLC names and altering them slightly. I always thought that was cute. Hmm, wonder if any of them had a problem with their "cameos"? I know the good guy/bad guy status of "Kathleen Browne" was up the air when she stopped writing. Always wondered how I turned out. <g>
Kathy
