Kate's Blog

Thanks everyone

For the suggestions regarding my shoulder injury. I really laid off carrying anything as much as possible (including Anna, poor thing) and slept on my back and kept icing it and now it is a lot better. I'm also starting to exercise (amazing for me) which helps. And meanwhile I have to be diligent about the writing. 3,000 words today to keep on track, and most of that will be typed one handed while nursing. Unfortunately my h key has given up the ghost and needs to be pressed about 3 times before it works, so this slows things down even more.

I have some foreign releases coming out, which is exciting. The Greek Tycoon's Convenient Bride is out this month in Harlequin Bianca, retitled Enchantment Under The Sea! Makes me think of The Little Mermaid :) It's also coming out in Germany, and Holland is putting it out in a few months, and I even get to be highlighted as their author of the month! Then in March Ruthless Boss, Hired Wife is coming out in Harlequin Bianca as Cruel Love. I love these titles, they remind me of the old Mills & Boon Titles of the 60s and 70s.

Has anyone got a favourite title of a romance or any book at all? One of my favourite book titles (even though the book infuriated me!) is Atlas Shrugged. That's so evocative, and you have to think to get it, which I like. I just read the book You're Not You and I have to admit that title bugged me a bit--it doesn't sound grammatically correct somehow, even if it is (is it?). A title of a book (mainstream) that I'm working on in my spare moments (that is, I'm thinking about it while on the bus) is called What's Left Behind, which is a title I really like for some inexplicable reason.

Do titles ever make you pick up a book--or keep you from picking it up? What are some of your least favourite titles?

posted by Kate Hewitt at 5:34 AM