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Title-storming, part four

Truth be Told A Proper Scandal The Deceitful Truth A Lady’s Lies A Lady’s Truth Story of a Lady Tales of a Lady

Title-storming, part three

The Deceitful Truth The Truth of the Matter

Title-storming, part two

[see part one below] More choices: …Sheets, Scandal Sheets, Press, News … Press Relations Miss Delancey and the Publisher, The Persistent Publisher, The Lady and the Publisher Passion’s Secret, Passion’s Truth Melody of Desire, Desire’s Melody Scales of Scandal Truth, Justice, and the Lady Truth, Justice—or the Lady The Lady and the Scribbler, Scribbling and [...]

Title-storming

Both agents I talked with this past weekend said I needed a better title than MUSICAL TIES. One said something with more sensuality, the other something witty. The story is of a high-born lady musician who lies to get her compositions published by a “truth-or-nothing” publisher at the end of the Napoleonic wars. Here goes: [...]

History of English, for no credit

The month and next, I’m walking through my current WIP (work-in-progress), scene by scene, and then line by line and, ideally, word by word. The story is set in England in 1815, and I need to rein in my modern-English tendencies. “Felicitations” is OK (first used in 1628), but not “sugarcoat” (1858), though it is [...]

Enriched editions

Nicola Cornick’s latest historical fiction novel, Unmasked, is available as an “enriched edition” e-book at eharlequin.com.  Harlequin promo:  Have you ever read something in a novel and wished you could see a picture, find a definition, or learn more about it without having to look it up? Now you can! This special electronic book is [...]

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