Returning the TARDIS to the Doctor

[pbray]

Heard back today that yes, the due date was a typo, and I actually have nearly two whole weeks for the galleys, which is the longest I've ever had. So I've returned the TARDIS and will now only be slightly crazed rather than completely crazed this weekend.

I'd still like to get them finished up before I head out to Boskone.

After a few emails back and forth, my editor and I have ageed upon the excerpt from THE SEA CHANGE that will be included at the back of THE FIRST BETRAYAL. It's a cool excerpt and would entice me to hunt down the author and shake her down for a pre-release copy :-)

While formatting the excerpt we realized that we'd never come up with a name for the series. I've been calling them "the lizard books" but that's not quite a marketing handle. I sent in a few suggestions which included The Ikarian Chronicles, The Chronicles of Josan and Tales of the Lizard just because I couldn't resist.

jennifer_dunne was tremendously helpful throughout this exercise, coming up with such gems as The Man Who Would Be Lizard, Mr. Monk and the Imperium, Empire and Lizard, and Surf and Turf, referring to the sea power/land empire conflict.

None of the suggestions particularly grabbed me, so we'll see.

Comments

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Sure, but do you list any of my GOOD suggestions? :-)

I was kind of partial to The Emperor Within.
And of course, Lucius Ascendant. :-)

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

I really like THE SEA CHANGE as a title. Especially coming after thE FIRST BETRAYAL. When is the first book out?

Good luck with the series title.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks. THE SEA CHANGE was arcaedia's suggestion, and I immediately loved it.

THE FIRST BETRAYAL comes out May 30th, and then looks like TSC will be out sometime spring 2007.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I keep doing a double-take when I see 'tfb' in your tags, because I've been calling THUNDERBIRD FALLS 'TBF', and I keep going "! what's she doing writing about my book!?" *laugh*

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

I keep doing a double-take, because I read it as "Too F--ing Bad", which someone uses the same acronym for. :-)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laugh*!

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

How about Jim Morrison's 'I am the Lizard King'? :-D
A Lizard of Earthsea?
Witchcraft and Lizardry?
Tongue and Tail...oh wait, that sounds more like erotica.


I like your new icon by the way.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I figured I needed a lizard icon for the books.

Anything with lizard in it wound up sounding silly, even The Lizard of Ikaria sounds too much like it wants to be "Wizard" instead.

I did briefly consider "The Lizard and the Scorpion" but that doesn't have quite the right feel. I have the weekend to mull things over, and then I'll wind up going with my first pick.

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

'Reptilian/reptile' something?

[califmole.livejournal.com]

How about The Chronicles of Death? Or Tails of the City? (sorry, couldn't resist)