Titles, or We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Engleesh!

We’re following up yesterday’s post with an examination of my own title experience, which right now, has been two books.
As some of you know, the original title of Secret Society Girl, as reported in Publisher’s Lunch, was Confessions of a (Secret) Society Girl.
Early in the editorial process, “Confessions” was nixed because there was a bit [...]

Titles: An Examination

I thought this might be a fun time to discuss the way that titles work in books. Titles are, for the writer, at once extremely important and extremely unimportant. The former because the right title is, like everything else about your submission package, a marketing tool. You want to pick a title that says, “read [...]

Cultural Enrichment Weekend

I think I’m finally getting over that cold. I don’t feel quite as crappy as I have for the last week or so. Nose less stuffed, too. Cough still hanging on.
Minor annoyance: Every time I log in here, Blogger says they are ready to switch me to Beta. But when I click on it, they’re [...]

Cynicism setting in (updated)

I realize that it’s been a while since I’ve done a writing craft or industry post. This is because, over the last few months, I’ve been feeling a growing sense of cynicism about whether such posts serve any real purpose. This is a combination, I suppose, of three things:
1) the sense that I’m preaching to [...]

Status Check

Horrific Cold-From-Hell: Still hanging in there.Wedding Dress: Still in love.Sailor Boy: Still the combo of infuriating and lovable I fell for.Gorgeous Photograph of Water Reflecting into a Canyon in Israel, Matted and Framed: Mine, because when you let this girl near an auction, her bloodthirsty competitive streak comes out.Snow: Falling. Dammit.The Three Tickets to Handel’s [...]

More disappearances…

Ugh. I’m sick. Big honking head cold, which has not been helped along by the plane flight AT ALL. So that’s why I haven’t been blogging. And I’m looking around my apartment, which is an unholy disaster, and which Sailor Boy reports he actually let people into while I was away… clearly, I can never [...]

Bad Blogger

Wow, have I been delinquent recently. I leave town and forget to blog. There are several reasons for this. To begin with, I did in fact, leave town, and have been very busy running around the gulf coast of Florida. Also, I’ve been working really hard on my new proposal. And finally, I have this [...]

Christmas Meme

I haven’t been tagged in a good long time. I’m so excited! Thank you, Susan!
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? I’m going to go with hot chocolate, since I usually love one eggnog per year, but hot chocolate is forever.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? What nonsense is this? [...]