At 15:06 10/06/2003, Casey Rousseau wrote: >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. I guess naming a person in the title more matches one of the Dumas titles (wasn't there one called "Louise de Lavallier", or something of that sort? -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net