Update on me...
Jun. 11th, 2007 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI'll be posting from lovely ValParaiso, Indiana for the next week. The good news is that the in-laws have WiFi, so I'm currently sitting out on the deck enjoying the breeze and typing to you. Cool, huh?
Also, I just got word from my agent that the British aren't going for DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS for a title for Tate's book three, either. So, once again I need to figure a title for book three. This is an on-going problem for Her as all the good DEAD titles have been taken by the much more popular vampire writers like Charaline Harris and MaryJanice Davidson. Plus, I've given myself the added constraint of having the titles be ways of describing various states of hotness, ala DEAD SEXY and TALL, DARK & DEAD. I've wanted to leave the dead thing behind, and have suggested titles like DAMNED HOT and BLOODY CHARMING, both of which I think are fine, but they've fallen on deaf ears in the marketing department. Any ideas?
Otherwise, I'm planning on spending my time here working on the EMILY poposal and another urban fantasy one. At some point, too, I suspect my agent will want a proposal for the next Tate book as well.
I tried to stir up some excitment on what_the_frak, but I had to go away for a few days and I think my lack of response may have ended any chance for a good conversation. Plus, I wonder, too, since most of the people on the list are radical leftists, there's probably not a lot of new things to say or that will cause much excitement/argument.
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Date: 2007-06-11 05:06 pm (UTC)to die for
dying to have it
could you just die? (okay, that's a stretch and usually about food, not looks)
hot as hell (will probably be ignored for same issues as damned hot?)
this is hard!
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Date: 2007-06-11 05:21 pm (UTC)"Deadly Dramatic"
"Deadly Poised"
"The Picture of Death"
Just throwing stuff out there. Thought something might hit you as so bad you would come up with something so much better.
*giggle*
Uhhh...
Date: 2007-06-11 07:24 pm (UTC)Dead Knight (as opposed to White Knight) or Dead in Shining Armor
Dead Dreamy
The Young and the Dead
Dead and Does Dishes
Why didn't they like Bloody Charming? I liked Bloody Charming!
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Date: 2007-06-11 10:37 pm (UTC)Is "Too Hot To Live, Too Cool To Die" taken?
Date: 2007-06-11 10:44 pm (UTC)Good luck,
The Plaid Adder
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Date: 2007-06-12 12:37 am (UTC)Will also try to think of titles for you.
Re: Is "Too Hot To Live, Too Cool To Die" taken?
Date: 2007-06-12 01:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-12 01:50 am (UTC)Hot as Sin (or Sinful [insert synonym for hotness/beauty])
Bloody Gorgeous (to combine two of your proposed titles)
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Date: 2007-06-12 06:48 am (UTC)Crossed posted Dead Letters
Date: 2007-06-12 06:18 pm (UTC)Dead Quick
Quick and Dead
Quick/Dead (with the slash being integral)
Dead Love
Dead Lovely
Dead Dreams
Dead Boned (not really serious about that, but it made me laugh. maybe s/b _Boned Dead_)
Dead Again
Dead Touch
Dead Lust
Argue with your editor that you want to insert a comma, and make _Drop-Dead, Gorgeous_ an imperative instead of a descriptive title.
Dead To Me
Dead to the World
Dead and Alone
Left for Dead (My favorite so far)
Dead Man's Hand
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Date: 2007-06-12 09:04 pm (UTC)I also like the last (anonymous) poster's suggestion of Drop Dead, Gorgeous. And Damned If I Do, even if it doesn't have "Dead" in it.
Yeah, "Dead" does seem to be the theme. I like the "Bloody" thing though, especially for vampire chick-lit. So many options.
Marketers are dumb.