What’s in a Name?
I wanted to thank JoJo for having me here. I love going on these tours and seeing new sites. It’s a lot of fun and I’m thrilled to be the guest.
My topic question was ‘picking a title for the story’. Ahh...simple and yet not. Titles are hard and easy to come up with. They’re easy because sometimes they just happen and fit. Other times it’s excruciatingly hard because there is more than one book out already with that title.
I have a theme in my books. They have song title names. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not to capitalize on the song. In many cases, the song the book is titled after isn’t the main song or one of the main songs on my iPod as I wrote it. For example, Careless Whisper is named after the Wham! song. But that wasn’t at all the version I had playing. I was listening to the harder, rougher, Seether version. And the actual inspiration for the book came from a Kelly Clarkson song – “Already Gone”. The hero was involved with someone else before the book and his wife tells him, ‘Look, I’m already gone’ because she’s dead. But that’s not what the hero/heroine wanted the book to be named. It was their story, not the hero and his former wife’s. So I let the story flow and the title actually came out of dialogue late in the story. Ryan mentions a careless whisper causing many of the problems.
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