![]() I felt so clever – it’s a book about eating disorders and girls’ relationship with food, but also about relationships, and early on in the book Julia, one of the main characters, tells the boy who kisses her at a party that she doesn’t want to be his ‘sorbet girl’. My latest book, Nothing Tastes As Good, was originally called ‘Sorbet Girl’. Obviously you want the title to represent the book as best it can, but you also need to be conscious of how it will sound in the context of other titles, in the context of the field as a whole. ![]() Your job as a writer is to write the best book you can, but you can’t possibly have the expertise and insights as people whose full-time job is to think about covers and one-line pitches and marketing and what booksellers want. And either way it doesn’t really mean much – the title you pick isn’t necessarily one that an editor, or an agent, or a sales and marketing team will agree with.Īnd for anyone going ‘oh my god but my book is my baby, don’t tamper with my creative genius!’, well. Sometimes I have an idea of one early on. “Do you have a title for the new one yet?” someone asks me at a recent book event, which is my cue to start laughing perhaps a little manically. ![]()
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