Death's Gift
My adored beta readers are starting to return crits to me on my extremely long manuscript for the story formerly known as The Corn Maiden.
At first, the discovery of fatal flaws in my baby drove me to despair. I planned to hack the whole thing in pieces and start all over. Further thought -- and sobriety -- offered an alternative solution, involving changes to key scenes. Hopefully this will save the whole thing from the scrape heap.
I'm impatient to gnaw on to fresh meat, so I want to get this book cooked and out of the oven.
In honor of the revisions, I toyed with a new title -- which, of course, required new cover art.
Whatdaya all think of the latest title? Is it intriguing? Think it stinks? Prefer the other one? Like the title in theory, but for some completely other book besides the one I've written?
I have two variations:
Death's Gift
Lady Death's Gift
I like the starkness of the first one, but the second sounds more like a fantasy to me.
Any thoughts?
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P.S. I have covers for the Secret Novel too, but I can't show them yet! Damn!
At first, the discovery of fatal flaws in my baby drove me to despair. I planned to hack the whole thing in pieces and start all over. Further thought -- and sobriety -- offered an alternative solution, involving changes to key scenes. Hopefully this will save the whole thing from the scrape heap.
I'm impatient to gnaw on to fresh meat, so I want to get this book cooked and out of the oven.
In honor of the revisions, I toyed with a new title -- which, of course, required new cover art.
Whatdaya all think of the latest title? Is it intriguing? Think it stinks? Prefer the other one? Like the title in theory, but for some completely other book besides the one I've written?
I have two variations:
Death's Gift
Lady Death's Gift
I like the starkness of the first one, but the second sounds more like a fantasy to me.
Any thoughts?
* * *
P.S. I have covers for the Secret Novel too, but I can't show them yet! Damn!
Comments
Love it!
The original cover shows more of the elements in the story.
Of course the matter is academic, since I won't be doing the cover even if it's published! There probably ought to be an Aesop's fable about not making covers before you sell the book. ;) I love doing it anyway.
And it is interesting to me to know which covers people prefer.
Glad that you were able to salvage most of the MS, major revisions always freak me out a little bit.
It also speaks to a dark tone, which I didn't really feel from the excerpts posted.
Lady Death's Choice immediately set me up thinking of a female grim reaper type. I don't think the picture goes with this title, but the title is good. I would think a book with that title would have a bit of humor in it. Possibly dark humor. and could be sad or not depending.
There you have how the new ones strike me. I like them both better than the corn maiden.
The connotations of "macabre" "solumn" and "historical romance" aren't what I really mean to convey.