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Who is your favourite author(s)?Yikes. Millions. Raymond Chandler, Thomas Mann would both be high on the list.And your seven all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann Farewell my Lovely, Raymond Chandler The early novels of Patrick O'Brien Anything by Beckett or Borges Emma, by Jane Austen, which isn't a cool choice but it's an honest one Malory's Morte D'Arthur - weird fascination si
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"Kim" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".Emma, thank you. Ironically it is the very book I purchased in London on Tuesday; I can't wait to get stuck in. :-)
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"EmmaD" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".Harry, if you want my PhD-achieving argument about why historical fiction is the most philosophically exciting kind of fiction of all, just let me know...
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"Harry" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".Well, Slippers' title is good, but I have to say I tilt towards Liss & Wrathnar's suggestions (see above). Robert McKee - yes, I've read as much of that book as I can stand. My brother once went to a weekend workshop run by the great man and said ...
- 13 hours ago"EmmaD" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".
Harry, if you're broadening out the enquiry have you read Richard Kearney's On Stories, about Narrative? Fab stuff, highly readable - it's in Routledges philosophy-for-real-people series - and as he's a novelist as well as a philosopher, he really ...
- 13 hours ago"Harry" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".
All very helpful. (And Emma is clearly a load better on titles than I am.) As it happens, I think maybe the solution is something even broader than E's suggestions. After all, a book on the storytelling impulse in humans isn't just about why re read ...
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"Caducean Whisks" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".Slippers, that's *it* (squeals). Love it.
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"Slipweed" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".I don't think a subtitle is necessary if you can come up with a catchy one liner. When the shelves are being perused it's the title that stands out and says here I am, come and read me. I've just finished reading about Clint Eastwood and this short ...
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"Green polka" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".Titles are hectic and I think Emma has some great ideas. At the moment my novel is called the 'Emancipation of Mimi' and the main character in not Mimi nor not Mariah Carey either, it just sounds right! Needless to say, this will change in due ...
- 1 day ago"Caducean Whisks" commented on Harry's Blog "Titles & subtitles".
Sorry H-Bomb, I don't like the subtitle, either. It puts my back up straight away - rather like those dated ads, asking, Hey, do you want to make a million quid while you're asleep?/Get your whites whiter than white?/Save £££ on your gas bill? ...
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25th August 2010Running for the closing doors
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20th August 2010Silver space suits and instant mash
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18th August 2010Getting published: finding the hook
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by Weens 1 month agoWe want loads of pictures of the 'cloudy event' with name tags, for us poor mortals back at the site, who are unable to come.
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by Harry 1 month agoThe charts change all the time. Things bounce in and out of those charts very quickly ... -
by Weens 1 month agoHarry, this probably sounds like a stupid question, but when you tell us a book is in the top one hundred in the Amazon Charts, where do you find that info? I've scoured Amazon, but to no avail.
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by Caducean Whisks 1 month agoRe your twitter post about Dan Brown gems - I shouldn't have laughed but I did. Can't twit a reply - don't understand these new-fangled things. Do you think they'll ever catch on? -
by Harry 1 month agoFair does, BP. I shouldn't be fretting any more, cos my agent likes the book and we'll be getting it out to publishers as soon as leaves start turning yellow. I'll change my status forthwithissimo.
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by BP 1 month agoFret no more, Harry, fret no more. Opi were decievers ever, one time great the next time less, to one emotion constant never. -
by Steve 1 month agoIt has taken me until this last week to figure it out. Harry on the brink... at first I thought it was a mental state thing, but now I'm 82.4% certain that it's:
Harry on the brink of mind-boggling success with more than one book that is sure to change the whole game.
[82.6% of statistics are made up on the spot].
