AUGH! Titling again
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valarltdI have no idea what to call my next book.
I need to change the title from HOT DELTA NIGHTS because "night" is overused.
Back of the Book:
DJ Admire works as a private investigator on the night-side of Memphis. She sees the city where werewolves drive trollies and teach college, where zombies load trucks and where Elvis is still the King...of the vampires. A world where she drinks away the nightmares. And a world where the local biker gang is really a group of combat mages, the bad boys of the magical world.
When Bran McKay, itinerant combat mage and the baddest bad boy of the CM world, turns up in her office all black leather kilt and sexy accent, she horrified even as her hormones carbonate. He's come to ask for her help to defeat the demon Oeilette--his old adversary, the one who ripped his face off in Russia--one last time before he retires. DJ just groans at the cliche her life has turned into. But the mana has other plans for her and Bran. As the demon summoning rushes to its conclusion, DJ learns many important things about herself, but most of all that she has no intention of letting her man die.
So far, we're at the "Daunted and Fucked" stage of titling. We're daunted, which means we're fucked.
We started with Black Leather and Memphis Blues. But this is a relentlessly vanilla novel
Delta Heat
Swelter in the Delta
BBQ Haggis
Low Road to Hell
One Demon Coming
Retired in Bad Standing
Taking the Low Road
Rum and Sex and Magic
Spells on the Mississipi
Lonely Highland Glens of Memphis
Mana Hunger
None of these is working for us.
I need to change the title from HOT DELTA NIGHTS because "night" is overused.
Back of the Book:
DJ Admire works as a private investigator on the night-side of Memphis. She sees the city where werewolves drive trollies and teach college, where zombies load trucks and where Elvis is still the King...of the vampires. A world where she drinks away the nightmares. And a world where the local biker gang is really a group of combat mages, the bad boys of the magical world.
When Bran McKay, itinerant combat mage and the baddest bad boy of the CM world, turns up in her office all black leather kilt and sexy accent, she horrified even as her hormones carbonate. He's come to ask for her help to defeat the demon Oeilette--his old adversary, the one who ripped his face off in Russia--one last time before he retires. DJ just groans at the cliche her life has turned into. But the mana has other plans for her and Bran. As the demon summoning rushes to its conclusion, DJ learns many important things about herself, but most of all that she has no intention of letting her man die.
So far, we're at the "Daunted and Fucked" stage of titling. We're daunted, which means we're fucked.
We started with Black Leather and Memphis Blues. But this is a relentlessly vanilla novel
Delta Heat
Swelter in the Delta
BBQ Haggis
Low Road to Hell
One Demon Coming
Retired in Bad Standing
Taking the Low Road
Rum and Sex and Magic
Spells on the Mississipi
Lonely Highland Glens of Memphis
Mana Hunger
None of these is working for us.
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Date: 2012-06-24 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-24 10:57 pm (UTC)If you can make "Rum & Sex & Magic" scan to "Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll" I think that would be perfect, but the best I can come up with is "Sex, Rum and Magic'n'Memphis" and I dunno if that quite works.
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Date: 2012-06-24 11:23 pm (UTC)is where I got that Rum and Sex and Magic (love and sex and magic)
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Date: 2012-06-25 09:25 pm (UTC)