Choosing a title can be very hard. Here are some working or proposed titles for a few classics:
Old: Elinor and Marianne
New: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen ... I definitely prefer the new title.
Old: All’s Well That Ends Well
New: War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy ... It's hard to even imagine this book with any other title.
Old: Catch-18
New: Catch-22, Joseph Heller ... 18 was changed to 22 so as not to be confused with Leon Uris's Mila 18, which was released around the same time.
Old: Incident at West Egg
New: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald ... Part of me prefers the original title; it makes me curious.
Old: Tomorrow is Another Day
New: Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell ... Glad they changed this one. The original is sappy and cliched.
Old: Something That Happened
New: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck ... Also glad they changed this one. The original would not have inspired me to want to read it.
Old: The Last Man in Europe
Now: 1984, George Orwell ... I like both of these.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
"Good Bald Moron" and "To Nimble Hoof Pork"... WTF?
I'm trying to come up with a title for the fourth Sasha Jackson mystery and I'm stuck.
As well, I have absolutely nothing better to do with my time (and I clearly need a hobby), so I went to an Internet anagram site and plugged in the titles of the first three Sasha Jackson Mysteries. Here's some of what I found:
Blood and Groom can become:
Dead Light District can become:
As well, I have absolutely nothing better to do with my time (and I clearly need a hobby), so I went to an Internet anagram site and plugged in the titles of the first three Sasha Jackson Mysteries. Here's some of what I found:
Blood and Groom can become:
- Bad Lord Go Moon
- A Boron Dog Mold
- Good Bald Moron
- A Bold Dong Room (My personal favourite)
Dead Light District can become:
- Cat Griddle Hid Tits
- Gait Stitch Diddler
- Cheddar Gild Its Tit (Wish I'd see this earlier - it's a winner!)
- Addicts Hid Glitter
- Atheist He Evil
- The Alive Heist (I may actually use this one someday...)
- Eat Lithe Hives
- I Leave The Shit
- Brothel Of Pink Moo
- Forelimb Hoop Knot
- To Nimble Hoof Pork
- Bile For Photo Monk
- Bloomer Poof Think
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Damn Titles!
I had a tough time coming up with a title for the third Sasha Jackson mystery. I sort of set a bit of a pattern with puns in the titles of the first two books of the series (Blood and Groom, Dead Light District), so I kind of wanted to keep up with the pun theme. As well, the punny titles relate to the plot of each book (weddings in Blood and Groom, prostitution in Dead Light District).
The plot of book three centres on politics and the fetish world, and let me tell you, the title was hard to come up with! I had some great suggestions from fans and friends plus a few ideas of my own, such as:
Cuff Me Tender
Lash and Burn
Tied and True
X Marks the Plot
In the end I chose The Lies Have It (a play on “the ayes have it”) because it encompasses the lies told in the sex games part of the story plus it sort of alludes to voting, although I must say there were things I really liked as well about the other title suggestions.
Now I need to start thinking of a title for book four... can't give many details yet, but it involves XXX films and I don't want to end up with a title that gets blocked by parental controls :-)
The plot of book three centres on politics and the fetish world, and let me tell you, the title was hard to come up with! I had some great suggestions from fans and friends plus a few ideas of my own, such as:
Cuff Me Tender
Lash and Burn
Tied and True
X Marks the Plot
In the end I chose The Lies Have It (a play on “the ayes have it”) because it encompasses the lies told in the sex games part of the story plus it sort of alludes to voting, although I must say there were things I really liked as well about the other title suggestions.
Now I need to start thinking of a title for book four... can't give many details yet, but it involves XXX films and I don't want to end up with a title that gets blocked by parental controls :-)
Monday, May 30, 2011
Book One is actually Book Three
The Lies Have It (which I refer to as the fetish book or the S & M book) is the third book in the Sasha Jackson mystery series. It’s due to come out in Fall 2011, and I can’t wait for it to be released! You see, even though this will be Sasha’s third mystery, it’s actually the first book, or at least it’s the one I started first. I began writing the fetish book in 2005!
I kept getting stuck on the plot of this book, so I left it on the back burner and had no real plans about writing overall. Then BANG! The idea for Blood and Groom came to me, and I wrote the whole thing in six months and six days.
After that, I tried to do more with the fetish book, but still kept getting stuck on the plot. I liked the overall idea – a murder related to an S & M fetish party – but couldn’t iron out several wrinkles in the plot. Everything I came up with relied too heavily on coincidences and was just too hard to swallow. So, once again I left the S & M book on the back burner.
Then I came up with the idea for Dead Light District, and that book took only five months to write, from start to finish. Its genesis was an essay I did for my MA, and the book practically wrote itself.
Finally, I figured out the plot for the S & M book, and came up with a title for it. The Lies Have It (as it’s now called... but I still think of it as the fetish book). So, book one is actually book three, and even though the other two books were quick to write (six and five months respectively) the third book took about six years! I hope to hell the fourth book will not take nearly as long :)
I kept getting stuck on the plot of this book, so I left it on the back burner and had no real plans about writing overall. Then BANG! The idea for Blood and Groom came to me, and I wrote the whole thing in six months and six days.
After that, I tried to do more with the fetish book, but still kept getting stuck on the plot. I liked the overall idea – a murder related to an S & M fetish party – but couldn’t iron out several wrinkles in the plot. Everything I came up with relied too heavily on coincidences and was just too hard to swallow. So, once again I left the S & M book on the back burner.
Then I came up with the idea for Dead Light District, and that book took only five months to write, from start to finish. Its genesis was an essay I did for my MA, and the book practically wrote itself.
Finally, I figured out the plot for the S & M book, and came up with a title for it. The Lies Have It (as it’s now called... but I still think of it as the fetish book). So, book one is actually book three, and even though the other two books were quick to write (six and five months respectively) the third book took about six years! I hope to hell the fourth book will not take nearly as long :)
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