Penric 4th combo title mulling
It occurred to me I could pull together a 4th Penric combo volume for foreign rights/translations sales even before "Knot of Shadows" runs through its year license period with SubPress. The shortish The Assassins of Thasalon plus the novella just about make up a nice book-market-friendly word count. But that, of course, leads to the perennial problem of a title, different from all the prior ones but clearly in a grouping.
This is all the more moot because foreign publishers, if any, all change the titles anyway, but it would be nice if the volume at least started out well-dressed.
So, Penric's [active-sounding plural noun]. "Adventures" is a bit bland, "Ventures" sounds a bit too much like "Travels", "Perils" is, um, no. Best I've come up with so far is Penric's Lessons, mm, maybe.
Anyone inclined to play is invited to chime in down in the comments.
Ta, L.
This is all the more moot because foreign publishers, if any, all change the titles anyway, but it would be nice if the volume at least started out well-dressed.
So, Penric's [active-sounding plural noun]. "Adventures" is a bit bland, "Ventures" sounds a bit too much like "Travels", "Perils" is, um, no. Best I've come up with so far is Penric's Lessons, mm, maybe.
Anyone inclined to play is invited to chime in down in the comments.
Ta, L.
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Works for me. I'll be waiting for news of the next Pen and Des adventure, or muddle, or unexpected travel suggestion (think it was Kurt Vonnegut who had a mystic proclaim, "unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessions from God." And you can guess which god in WOFG that would be.)
We settled in Penric's Intrigues for this round, or at least that's the title it's going out under for foreign rights submissions. Vague enough to be inclusive. Don't know if there will be any takers, though Japan took the first 3. If there is ever another volume -- not soon, to be sure -- I'll be revisiting the possibilities.
L.