Get it while you can AND a contest, maybe

Here's your chance to play editor! Name that book.
Test your skills as a editor and/or marketing peon.

WHY?
Because I've tested my skills and they suck.**
I'm going to buy a new cover for The Ratcatcher. Why? Mostly because I love Kimberly Killion's business.

This means the book is going cost me money. Which, in turn, means I'm going to stop giving it away for free. Of course there are a gazillion free copies of the thing floating around, and this is a useless exercise, but why not? Hey?

It also means I need to give the book a new title because the title Ratcatcher actually sort of sucks according to everyone who knows these things. There are no rats, there is no ratcatcher (which disappointed a number of people) and it's about as romantic a title as "Pesticide"

HOW?
Give me a new title: Generic Historical is out. Somebody Something-or-another might be okay since the story is very vaguely related to those books I wrote all those years ago. Somebody Clueless would be good, because the heroine was raised in a vacuum, except that is not historical. Too bad Brave New World has been taken because she's as boggled as Miranda.

WHAT DO I GET?
If someone actually enters this kinda contest, I'll give you (at least one of you) 3 of my ebooks. If more than a five people enter, I'll give away a gift certificate, too. I'll be randomly picking a name. We'll say $20 from Amazon, ok? Let's say we have until January 3, which is when Kimberly will probably get antsy for a title.

Yes. Okay. And this is obviously just for fun, not real promo, since I'm not trying to get you to purchase a book that'll make me money--at least not until it has a title and cover. Time is running out on these offers.


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Oh, right! If you're going to play editorial and/or marketing department, you might want some props. You can read the book (available for free at the link off the right) or you can read the book sheet.

This is based on the dozen or so different types of art/cover copy sheets I've filled out over the years. I left off the synopsis (that describes the story from start to finish) They usually want that. I've added my very lame tag-line thingy. Feel free to improve that, while you're at it.

GENERIC EDITORIAL SHEET

Physical descriptions for hero and heroine go here, along with their GMC.
Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've read the book, I'll have to fill this in later.
Hero: Cutter. Um. A guy.
Heroine: Callie. She was raised by a reclusive, eccentric grandmother and has zero skills for survival.

Cheesy description: (feel free to make this more appealing) A gaslight historical romance set in 1884 New York City. Innocent Callie Scott lived a sheltered life until she is trapped in a raid on a house of ill-repute. That's only the start of her run of bad-luck. Two days later, she must turn to help from the same detective who has already witnessed her at her worst: tipsy and behaving like a fool.

Officer Cutter doesn't need the complication of a well-bred innocent in his life, but he still finds himself offering her a job. He discovers he must now act as protector to the same young lady he desires--and who wants him.

Yay! Thanks! Do my job for me!

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**I'm okay with other people's books. Just not my own.