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

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I would expect funny, with possible buckled swashes. Nothing there evokes lots of boats for me.

Cover art and copy could revise that expectation considerably.

And yeah, what Jo says about YA versus contents . . .

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The boats were my attempt at making people think outside just the immediate adjectives provided: Boats, what, boats? No way, I think of ______.