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

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I agree with papersky about expectations about the YA content.

I'd expect it not necessarily to be lighthearted but to contain some humour, especially at the start. I'd be more likely to pick it up if the cover suggested that the idea of 'saving the kingdom' is looked at from different angles (as opposed to 'Kingdom needs saving, small band of plucky people save it, everyone lives happily ever after'), and less likely if the cover suggested something by Robert Asprin or Tom Holt.

I think that the title (in the absence of other information) suggests that a secondary-world fantasy with a roughly Medieval Mid/North European monarchy is the most likely of several possible options, but I wouldn't find it particularly odd if that wasn't the option chosen.