Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Writing titles - I've gone blank
I have a habit of collecting titles for books that may or may not ever get written. Sometimes the title seems so good there's no need to write the book. Example: How Not To Mourn - pertains to when I became a widow, nearly two years ago. And that summed it up for me - you kind of (have to) go crazy, enter new hostile territory and just deal. I made a lot of "mistakes" that some psychologist would have surely clucked at me about and no, I'm not going to say what they were (are?)! Anyhow, now I've got what I think is a great new book cooking but I can't find a good title for this book that is guide for parents who have daughters with substance abuse problems. My helpful l9 year old daughter has suggested some riotous examples: like..."Pills and Prom Gowns," "After-school Smack-tivities." Fine except some agonized parent isn't going to appreciate the joke. I'm stuck with boring possibilities, like "A guide for Parents who have Daughters with Substance Abuse Problems." Huge yawn. Help. More later.
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About my latest book, a novel, "Gringa in a Strange Land." Set in Mexico in the early '70's, a(n American) female on-the-road adventure, a coming of age tale, but also a kind of love letter to southern Mexico, especially the Yucatan, during the tempestuous counterculture and - many of us thought - the edge of a new era throwing off repression, war and dictatorship (man, were we wrong.)
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