[ via Neil Gaiman ] To tuckerize (after Wilson Tucker) is to name a character in a work of fiction after a real person.
You, dear reader, can buy the right to be tuckerized by the likes of Karen Joy Fowler (Tiptree Award co-founder), Steven King, Michael Chabon, and Neil Gaiman in a series of fund raising auctions for the First Amendment Project.
It’s a fine fannish tradition. David Weber [thanks, Patrick] used Cynthia’s name when he needed a hispanic character in one of his Honor Harrington novels (he didn’t know her surname was Portuguese.) Now she worries with each new book in the series that her namesake’s going to end up on the wrong end of an anti-ship missile. I bought my tuckerization in a forthcoming Jay Lake novel at a fundraiser for the Clarion West writers’ workshop.
The right to name a cruise ship in Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys raised four figures for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, so bid high.
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