News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #65…

#369: Titles don’t have copyrights. That’s fortunate for Nora Roberts. Her new book, The Collector, was released 4/15/2014. An excerpt from my new book, The Collector, appeared in Aristocrats and Assassins, released 3/9/2014. I imagine that such a short title has been used before, though, so both Nora and I would be in trouble if titles had copyrights. Writers shouldn’t get the idea that it’s clever to reuse some famous author’s title just to come up in a search with them. In my case, The Col...