One question I have been asked time and time again is ‘Where did you get your name from?‘
I don’t think it’s so much the name itself, it’s a well known phrase, ‘Knock on Wood’, but more the phonetic presentation of it (although to many American Xbox Live gamers the phonetic nature of it seems to go way over their heads).
The name itself wasn’t created by me, but has been used by me for near enough a decade. It’s actually a fairytale characters name from the Michael Marshall (Smith) book, The Straw Men (2001), which, in case you were wondering, is one of my favourite books ever and I really recommend you pick it up. I really should read it again sometime (although I would have to re-buy it after lending it to someone and never getting it back – they left college and lost all contact with me back in 2003) and see if it still has that same magic about it that really captured my imagination and got me hooked on reading again.
