My Love's Landscapes story, The Dreams You
Made in the Dirt, is here!
Well, it's currently here to read at Goodreads.
And soon it will be available for download here at the MM Romance Group.
Anyway, it's out now, so I thought I'd tell you
guys a thing about the event. They ask you for the title right at the
beginning. Horrifying!
Not horrifying enough? Let me retype that in bold
caps: THEY ASK YOU FOR THE TITLE RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING.
I hate titles. I'm really, really bad with them.
Really bad.
Just ask J.A. Rock. When our working title for
When All the World Sleeps didn't pan out, I swear it took us longer to come up
with a title than it did to actually finish writing the book. I can't possibly
come up with a title before a book is written.
Here are some working titles I have on my
computer:
The Demon One. Creative,
right?
Bodygaurd. Yes, spelled
like that and everything.
And, my personal favourite, which I swear is
real: Crap. I was supposed to be
working on something else and got totally distracted by a shiny new idea
instead. This one's a sequel for Another Man's Treasure, BTW.
But one day, sometime last month, I was working
really hard at my writing playing games on my phone when the phrase hit me
out of nowhere: the dreams you made in the dirt.
What's it mean? No idea. But it seemed like the
sort of thing I could use as a title. Just had to wedge it in there somewhere
and make it seem organic. So this little thing happened between Aiden and his
mum, when Aiden was a kid:
He remembered her hosing off his
filthy legs before letting him back into the house.
“Look at you!”
“Are you mad?”
“Why would I be mad?”
“I’m covered in mud.”
“Are you sure that’s mud? I thought
you were covered in the dreams you made in the dirt.”
After that, sometimes Aiden would
look at the black lines of dirt under his nails and smile.
So I like to think I'm getting better with titles. I'm certainly getting more creative. First book? Tribute. Second: The Island. Now I have actual phrases! Truly, this are the promised times.
