To be honest, this title has taken a lot of work to find. Or, rather, I've spent hours and hours trying to find it, and failing. Until I holed up at my favorite local coffee shop on New Year's Day and pursued one final idea. And it worked! I found the title!
My Beauty? A lovely German immigrant anxious to earn money to help save her family's bakery back home.
My Beast? A wealthy recluse determined to hide in his home with his books and his faithful friends.
I really love these two characters. I hope you will too, when I finally can share the whole book with you! But for now... yay! I have found the title!
Love it! I can't wait for the cover reveal and the whole book!😊
ReplyDeleteThanks, EFB! I'm glad you're looking forward to it :-) Me too!
DeleteI really like how you've taken these books as a way to retell these fairy tales. And by retelling them you can also meddle with the plot as well, hehe.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I usually don't have trouble with titles. I always seem to get one from somewhere, whether I steal it from somewhere or come up with it myself, that's not my problem. But I see how annoying it is for you, and most other people as well.
Faramir
Thanks, Faramir! I often use my retellings to "fix" things I don't like about the original fairy tale. Like how the parents are so stupid in Sleeping Beauty -- who doesn't invite a powerful fairy known to be vindictive when upset, and known to be upset about being left out of things? Idiots! Also, who gets into such a snit over not being invited to a party that they curse a baby with death? Petty creep! So I gave the parent in my version "The Man on the Buckskin Horse" a good brain and the villainness a slightly more reasonable reason to be upset.
DeleteI don't generally struggle with titles. The best ones arrive with the story ideas (like Dancing and Doughnuts did), but if that doesn't happen, I usually find them organically while writing the first draft (like One Bad Apple). And if that doesn't happen either, a title usually pops out at me after like one brainstorming session (like Cloaked). But this one didn't, and I have no idea why. Oh well, it has a title now!