Showing posts with label title. Show all posts
Showing posts with label title. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

Eureka! Success!

Could it get any better...the contest has a winner and the book now has a title! I am super excited, not to mention  relieved. So here it is:

Warrior 
of the 
Egyptian Kingdom

Great thanks to contest winner and title creator: 
Carrie Malinowski

The more I look at it the more I love it. It's perfect. It encapsulates every plot point of the novel. Did I say I love it? Well, I do! So Carrie, you get the first peek at the cover and an advanced copy of book #3 of the PRINCESS KANDAKE series due to be released February 1, 2014. Oh and don't forget, you will also have a huge mention in the acknowledgements of that book! Thank you so much.

Allow me to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed their wonderful ideas to this quest for a title. Let me tell you that I was truly stuck. I couldn't come up with a single working idea and all of you had some really great ones! I can't thank you enough. You saved my bacon.

Whew! I can finally move on to selecting photos for the over. I guess I could have done that before now, but every time I opened that file I kept thinking, "what if this doesn't reflect the title?" So now there's nothing getting in my way. Once I get the pictures sent to the cover designer I can focus on something else...like marketing.

For me this is the most difficult part of being an author telling everyone far and wide that I have a new book out and would you please buy it. I have to come up with inventive ways to get you to fall in love with the story before you read a single word and at the same time not seem like I'm begging or nagging. So if you have any suggestions on that, I'll gladly accept those, as well.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

I Have Decided!


4th of julyThanks to all of you for your help. I have decided on the title. I never thought naming the book could be so difficult. Here’s the list of  the titles you proposed. This is what was submitted in the comments.

The Reluctant Princess                 Her Own Terms
The Princess Warrior                    Born to Rule
The Princess Way                          Strong Hands, Royal Blood
What Your Heart Tells You          Kandake: A Warrior Princess
Kandake Saves the Kingdom        Warrior by Choice, Princess by Blood
Next in Line                                   Kandake: Princess vs. Warrior
Daddy’s Girl                                   Born to War, Raised to Rule        
Bow to Me                                     Not Your Average Nubian Princess
Born to War, Raised to Rule         Kandake: Princess Warrior of Nubia
Warrior Princess                            Princess Kandake: Warrior of Nubia
Nubian Warrior Princess     
The Princess Who Didn’t Want to be Queen

From the list, you can see that I combined several of your suggestions in the title. And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for. Drum roll, please….

PRINCESS KANDAKE  Warrior by Choice, Appointed to Rule!

Thank you all, again. Now on to the next step.