Titles

Well, one thing has been clearly demonstrated to me by my slog through various bookfinding websites today.

I'm not going to title this book The Ice Palace. That title has been used too often. This is all very premature, of course (as I am not yet entirely convinced I'm actually going to finish writing the frigging thing), but at least it's nice to rule that out. Two other ideas, tentative at best: I could use the title of the ice palace necklace, Down All Those Glittering Halls (read the story behind that here) or I could use a title that minnehaha B. suggested, taking the idea from my Glare Reports: Glare. I'll be soliciting help for ideas more seriously when I'm further along and actually convinced this book is really going to happen, but hey, if you have an idea for a title for The Ice Palace the ice palace novel, leave me a comment. Silly is ok; we're just brainstorming at this point.

And while we're at it, I never really like the title for Emerald House Rising very much, but I couldn't think of anything better, and I didn't have a LiveJournal back then so that I could ask for suggestions. What should I have titled it instead?

Edited to add: And of course you do all realize that even if you manage to come up with a title for the book I like, the editor who buys it may overrule it anyway. And that's assuming I find an editor to buy it!

Glare Report 10/12/04: Minimal amount accomplished (Excuses, excuses)

Instead of doing my research reading during my lunch hour, I read Time and Newsweek about the election. I took the girls to karate, and after they were in bed, I talked with kijjohnson and caught up with scads of e-mail rather than sat down to work on the book. About all I accomplished today was to think about titles and make several ineffectual stabs at finding Robert Olsen's ice palaces book. I'll call the Minnesota Historical Society tomorrow. I'm sure I'll be able to track the book (and maybe the author) down through them.