Title survey winner and what's coming next!
Picking a title was hard after years of toiling under the name A Place Between. I will always love that title for this story, but alas, I cannot fight for that space on google’s first page. So we knew we had to come up with something new. With the help of several others, I generated a list of over a hundred (seriously) potential titles.
We whittled that daunting list down to 5 possible contenders and put those out to the world:
Music in the Stars
Darkness After Light
Without a World
When the Moon Comes
The Last Gasp
The survey group of potential readers was small, I didn’t have time to try to get a big group, but there was consensus. Of all of those titles, Music in the Stars and Without a World polled the best. I decided that Music in the Stars would likely turn some male readers away from the story, but honestly, they probably wouldn’t want to read a story about twin girls and their heroine mother anyway. But the title turned me off as too girly, so there.
Darkness After Light was a front runner for me for a while. I also like When the Moon Comes. It’s the name of a Kirasu song, and Miranda is a moon of Uranus, the fact that features in the story, but Sarah Fontenelle (my collaborator ) and I decided it was too long for the title. The Last Gasp is a lyric from one of the songs featured in the book, but it sounds like the name of a sci-fi story about a planet running out of oxygen, and that is not this story.
So, we landed on Without a World. It works because I like the alliteration, and Miranda finds herself between worlds, not really belonging to either.
Final copy edits are done, thanks to Paul Jenulis at Reedsy. He was fabulous to work with and has a very keen eye.
The cover is almost complete, thanks to the amazing work of Rebbeca Robouche. Cover reveal will be coming in the next few weeks. We will be able to unveil the final track going into the book in the next few weeks.
There are wheels on this bus, and it’s trucking people! More to come soon!
- Kristen