Sep 16 2008
titles are overrated
Blog titles … not book titles. Book titles I like. CHAPTER titles, on the other hand, I waver about. In Angel in the Woods , the chapter titles (no numbers, always lowercased) were part of the whole feel of the thing. I wrote chapter titles for Worlds Unseen when I did my third draft, but I haven’t got any for Burning Light — in the interest of trilogy consistency, I’m wondering if I should add some.
Speaking of Burning Light , he liked it :).
It does have a few problems yet, but nothing I can’t iron out. The biggest one is what to use for the cover! My talented sister Deborah, illustrator/photographer of all my covers, is going to paint one, but I’ve left her waiting for months while I try to come up with a concept. I sigh. At least it will be something I like, which is a comfort authors who write for big publishers cannot always count on.
Finally, yesterday I told an aspiring author to end as many sentences with prepositions as she likes. If the grammar police come looking, I moved to Bolivia.
Adios!
