Marty and Judd

my question is how did you come up with a boy named Marty and a man named Judd? I also have another question too. That question is that if Shiloh was actually a girl in real life how come you changed her into a boy for the story? Finally, my last question is that why did you name the dog Shiloh if his actual name is Clover?I am so excited to read more of your books

Sometimes the author doesn’t know why.  Things just seem better to change things around.  I named the dog Shiloh because in real life, that’s where we came across the dog that inspired the books– Shiloh, West Virginia–just a small community up in the hills.