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Jael is tired of being stereotyped as just another novelist/poet/former English teacher/tour guide/"Jeopardy!" semifinalist/bellydancing editor-in-chief with an MFA who was once an overachieving oboe-playing alto newspaper editor valedictorian from Iowa. She was also captain of the football cheerleading squad.
editor-in-chief
member since 9.1.99
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6.10.73
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there's a word for it
the art of the title
2.3.10
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So, my first novel is coming out next spring. A year and change from now. I would like you to buy it, of course. I would like you to buy many many copies and give them to everyone you've ever met and organize book club discussions around them. Also parties. And parades. And over-the-top festivities of all sorts.
To that end, I would also like to tell you what the novel is called, but: right now, I can't.
It's an occupational hazard of publishing, this. (Of course publishing has SO many occupational hazards I can't even begin to list them.) The title needs to be just right. In the case of most books, this is a process. I was at dinner with 10 novelists last week and when we discussed whose books had actually reached shelves with their initial titles, only one or two could step forward. Everyone else? Changed. At least once. Usually more than once.
The search for the perfect title is elusive. Often, fruitless. You can easily end up with something ...
read on
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