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Showing posts with label Book Titles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Titles. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Thursday, 17 August 2017
Literary Lacrosse Stick Quiz!
Yesterday I did an author Twitter takeover of my publishers Dead Ink Books As part of the mayhem & madness, I set a 25 question quiz, with questions posed as crossword cryptic clues. (Hence the title, Literary Lacrosse Stick, to represent that my new novel has a couple of acrostics in it).
In case you weren't able to join in but have a hankering to pit your wits, here are the questions again.
I give the cryptic clue to the book title, the year of publication and the country of origin of the author.
Here's an example for you: Junky American author’s unadorned repast (5,5) 1959
Answer:
I'll publish the answers on the blog in a couple of days.
Happy solving!
In case you weren't able to join in but have a hankering to pit your wits, here are the questions again.
I give the cryptic clue to the book title, the year of publication and the country of origin of the author.
Here's an example for you: Junky American author’s unadorned repast (5,5) 1959
Answer:
I'll publish the answers on the blog in a couple of days.
Happy solving!
1) UK author’s ossified time keepers (3,4,6) 2014
2) Russian MA (Hons) celebrates with a salted rimmed glass of tequila & triple sec (3,6,3,9) 1967
3) Polish émigré switches off all the lights at the hub (5,2,8) 1899
4) Manchester author’s wind-up citrus fruit (1,9,6) 1962
5) Korean eschewer of animal comestibles (3,10) 2007
6) All change for this Czech, but the DNA remains exactly the same (3,13) 1915
7) Junky author’s vermillion nocturnal municipalities (6,2,3,3,5) 1981
8) Anglo-Dutchman’s Sub-subcutaneous? (5,3,4) 2000
9) Pacifist Yorkshireman’s Infernal unison (3,6,6) 2006
10) Yugoslav Civil Service as the source of agonies? (3,8,2,4) 2006
11) Austrian sporting custodian’s twitchiness in the face of punitive leathering (3,11,7,2,3,7,4) 1970
12) Japanese Alice eschews egg-timer for the final apocalypse (4-6,10,3,3,3,2,3,5) 1985
13) US author has Theseus’ conquest submit to its craving for nicotine (3,8,5,1,9,5) 2000
14) Modern day French misanthrope would gladly blow each and every one of us to bits (8) 1998
15) Orphaned NYC Borough (10,8) 1999
16) Irish author’s nominal aphasia? (3,9) 1953
17) Count on this midday British author’s attribution of the cause of hay fever (6) 1995
18) American writer’s ignited abecedary (5,8) 2012
19) Frenchman’s 26th and last, the back to the beginning for the first (4) 2010
20) American author relocates Hades between Brooklyn’s Polo grounds and Dallas (10) 1997
21) Scottish author double negative rejection of state benefits amid mañana (3,3,5,3,4) 1983
22) French author drops a quartet of aitches? (1-1-1-1) 2010
23) Nothing to sneeze at Russian SciFi author putting murder up his nose (5) 2011
24) English author’s tale of the dictator of London’s W11 (3,8,2,7,4) 1904
25) US once-a-decade novelist’s nuptial plans? (3,8,4) 2011
Answers can be found here
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Brimful Of Book Titles
With a million books being published every second (unofficial stat), it's maybe none too surprising that many books share titles with others in the market. Now it is possible to ensure uniqueness, "Psoriasisters" as an epic family saga ought to stand alone, or "Campfire Legends of Hopalong Goldfarb" should nicely niche the Jewish Westerns market. "Quantum Vichyssoise" for those cookbooks in zero gravity...
I give a lot of thought to my book titles, but one thing I omitted to do was to check top see what was already out there. I was alright with my first novel
"A,B&E" was unmatched by any other title. Largely I think because it was you know, conceptual!
My second novel took it's title from the slogan of the Anti-war movement campaigning against war in Iraq. I later discovered it was listed against the enfant terrible of British journalism Julie Burchill's "Not In My Name - A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy" which I was pretty cool with, not that I've read it. And now as other wars and fronts open up, the slogan has been reappointed to oppose these wars, my book is still as relevant as ever as it lays bare the psychology of extremism and the paltry abilities of the mainstream to comprehend it in any useful way.
But it was with my third novel that I really should have done my homework and ever since which I unfailingly do. The number of books called "Time After Time" is mind-boggling. And a tad depressing. Of all my books this one had the most titles I went through until I landed on what I thought was the perfect one. It so fit the book, but apparently it fits scores of others too. I even met one of the authors of the same-titled books on Twitter this week when he RT'd a pun hashtag entry of mine. We both followed each other and commented how each other's book looks interesting. Neither of us bought the other's tome though!
And so to my upcoming new publication, a collection of flash fiction entitled "Extra-Curricular". It goes to print soon, so I looked up books with the same name. Unsurprisingly there are a few, predictably about illicit affairs between students and teachers. So, safe in the knowledge that there isn't a whiff of paedophilia within my pages, I commend to you my relatively matchless title
I give a lot of thought to my book titles, but one thing I omitted to do was to check top see what was already out there. I was alright with my first novel
My second novel took it's title from the slogan of the Anti-war movement campaigning against war in Iraq. I later discovered it was listed against the enfant terrible of British journalism Julie Burchill's "Not In My Name - A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy" which I was pretty cool with, not that I've read it. And now as other wars and fronts open up, the slogan has been reappointed to oppose these wars, my book is still as relevant as ever as it lays bare the psychology of extremism and the paltry abilities of the mainstream to comprehend it in any useful way.
But it was with my third novel that I really should have done my homework and ever since which I unfailingly do. The number of books called "Time After Time" is mind-boggling. And a tad depressing. Of all my books this one had the most titles I went through until I landed on what I thought was the perfect one. It so fit the book, but apparently it fits scores of others too. I even met one of the authors of the same-titled books on Twitter this week when he RT'd a pun hashtag entry of mine. We both followed each other and commented how each other's book looks interesting. Neither of us bought the other's tome though!
And so to my upcoming new publication, a collection of flash fiction entitled "Extra-Curricular". It goes to print soon, so I looked up books with the same name. Unsurprisingly there are a few, predictably about illicit affairs between students and teachers. So, safe in the knowledge that there isn't a whiff of paedophilia within my pages, I commend to you my relatively matchless title
Published 18th September
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