extremely funny!!!! b Casey Rousseau wrote: > Steve Hubbell asked: > > What happens when the Vlad Taltos novel DZUR is published? Will > > the titles of the other (eventually) forthcoming Vlad Taltos > > books be changed to easier pronounced but more mundane titles? > > Although I asked much the same question last year when the topic first came > up, I think the conversation probably went something like: > > PNH: Steve, we got a problem. > SKZB: We do? Sh_t, I ... > PNH: No, no, not that. Marketing says 'The Enchantress of Dzur Mountain' > is too long a title. > SKZB: How is it too long? It's shorter than 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner > of Azkaban'! > PNH: Yeah, but with the Potter books, you can skip the 'Harry Potter and' > part in counting how long the title is. Also, the test group couldn't > figure out how to pronounce 'Dzur'. > SKZB: Oh, sure and Azkaban just trips right off the toungue. > PNH: Now, Steve, you know as well as I do that all Scholastic has to do is > whisper that there is a new Harry book and people will fork over all their > money. > SKZB: What if I get around to writing _Dzur_? > PNH: We will cross that bridge when we come to it. Besides, you might get > bored with Vlad long before then. Let's call this one 'Sethra Lavode'. > That keeps the title character the same, keeps the parallels with Dumas's > Vicomte, etc. > SKZB: It's not that much easier to pronounce. > PNH: Just trust me on this one. > SKZB: Oh, all right. > > -Casey