What We Did to Ask Your Opinion

[mrissa]

Please note that I am aware that most of you have not read this book, so you are not being asked to comment on whether the title works well for the specific book I've written. (Although if you have read it, feel free to e-mail me with opinions on how the title worked for you.)

[Poll #1294645]

Also, if you ran across a book called What We Did to Save the Kingdom, what, if any, preconceptions would you have about it? (Funny, serious, high fantasy, swashbuckling, sword-wielding protagonist, lots of boats, whatever.)

Comments

[katallen.livejournal.com]

On potential originality of content, I'd vote yes.

But then for me a book titled WWDtStK would be a bit like my Middlemost but with an undertone of a little more, and possibly a bit darker, emphasis on the What. So, at least a little bit of wit/irony on a seemingly standard fantasy plot but with a darker thinky edge of exactly what saving a 'kingdom' entails (and that could be a non-fantasy kingdom so long as there was a fantasy feel to the plot). Middlemost, but with more about 'doing what needs must be done' and what that costs the people who do it. Not humour, but characters with a sense of humour.

And I think I'd find it memorable -- I'm prone to remembering stories but forgetting titles. Clearly someone thought *those* titles were memorable, so my taste in quirky meaningful is not relevent to market fetishes. Which I guess means, I like it and an editor who loves the book may like it -- but possibly not (given one agent sent me a form rejection referring to Artemis rather than The Middlemost Child, I may also have a titling problem) :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Which is better than a tilting problem, I feel sure.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Definitely better than a tilting problem -- unless that's the kind that involves poking at windmills with long sharp sticks, from horseback, and believing you can win.