Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.