Hi,
I'm back, finally (I just looked, the 26th of september, that was way too long ago, I'm sorry)
Buttt, that's not the reason for this lovely author's note...
Sooo, I decided to change Midge's name to Marie, because well I like Marie beter and there's a whole logic behind it, believe me.
Okay, that was the most important thing, so you can stop reading if you want, but under this I will explain the whole logic behind her name.
Firstly, Midge's name was based on Thomas Midgley Jr. He was an American engineer and chemist who died because of one of his own inventions (he got poliomyelitis, which left him mostly disabled so he invented a whole system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from the bed and he got strangled by the wires). Because the people of WICKED really like irony, they chose to rename her Midge (because that's not her real name, but that's the second book) because of reasons (once again second book, but it has something to do with what you would call a suicide mission).
But I (and the other writer of the story) never really liked her name but she had already written most of the story (I only translate for those who didn't know that yet, and I'm using a lot of brackets) we decided to keep her name. After a while, and a few lessons about nuclear physics, we decided to change her name to Marie after the scientist Marie Curie because she also died because one of her experiments (she died because of exposure to radiation while carrying test tubes of radium in her pockets during research). Iliked the name Marie better that Midge so that's why I changed her name in the middle of the book.
And that was my beautiful explanation about why we changed the name.
I'll post the next 2 chapters in the next 2 days and hopefully I have time to update more frequently.
xoxo Sarah