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

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

The title to me points to a voice; ironic or snarky (including variants of "deconstructive"), sometimes humorous. A rather modern voice for that reason. So that means definitely not "high fantasy".

"Kingdom" places it firmly as fantasy.

I tend not to detect YA via titles, and don't much care about the line anyway, so no strong opinion on how it would hit people in that dimension.

Of course the whole package would give a lot more clues about what it was than just the title does.

I think it's a great title (personal opinion, I don't pretend to know what titles work to market a book).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But you've read it; it is high fantasy. That disconnect doesn't strike you as a problem?

(Or are we running into the thing yet again where I think I've written something in one genre and everyone else thinks it's in another?)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the background fits "high fantasy" well enough. The story, to my mind, doesn't.

Besides, it's too short to be high fantasy these days :-).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I can rush right out and write half a dozen sequels, though, if that would help!

I shouldn't and won't, unless somebody signs on the dotted line for them. But I can.