Since my sister had great success titling Cracked Up to Be, I emailed her the other day and asked her to title Your Mom. She came back with SMACK or SMACKED which I kind of liked but is a no-go because Melvin Burgess wrote a book named Junk that became a book named Smack and also, Smack is the street name for heroin and there is no heroin in my book but there IS cotton candy, which is the street name for spun sugar.
So anyway, I told her so and she said she wouldn’t have known that because she’s not up on knowing street names for drugs like I am because drugs are uncool and she’s above the influence just like the commercials say, which is her anti-drug. And then I said she just thought she was better than me because she didn’t watch A&E’s Intervention religiously like I did. And then she said she DID think she was better than me for exactly that reason. And then I was like, whatevers, just give me a drug-connotation free title for my new novel or you’re fired and then she never emailed me back!! And then I cried.
After I post this, I’ll probably email her and tell her I wrote about how she made me cry in my blog and she will probably feel so guilty she will think up a title I can actually use.
my anti-drug.
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Wednesday February 6th, 2008 @ 2:45am
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categories: cracked up to be,personal,some girls are (your mom),writing
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And with all due respect to your sister, there’s also the issue of ‘Smack/Smacked’ and Cracked rhyming? Which, I’ve never even though to ask you if Book #2 is a sequel to Book #1 — in which case that would sort of make sense and I feel like a twit — but, eh. Not that anybody’s asking me, but. Rhyming titles. Y’know?
On the other hand — “The street name for cotton candy”? You have to at LEAST write a po-mo musical epic with that one. ;)
Omg, fastest comment ever! We should both be in bed right now. But anyway. You’re not a twit! It’s not a sequel. :) But you gave me a great idea in that all my books should rhyme with Cracked Up to Be. I’ll go down the alphabet:
BACKED UP TO BE
GACKED UP TO BE
HACKED UP TO BE
JACKED UP TO BE
LACKED UP TO BE
MACKED UP TO BE
PACKED UP TO BE
QUACKED UP TO BE
RACKED UP TO BE
SACKED UP TO BE
SMACKED UP TO BE
TACKED UP TO BE
WACKED UP TO BE
YACKED UP TO BE
I should email you the barebones I gave my sister and you can see what she had to work with. I have to give her props because… I gave her nothing, aaaaah.
AND YOU ARE SO RIGHT re: POMO MUSICAL EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHERE IS MY AUTOHARP!
I did too write you back! And with another book title! :P
Liar!
P.S. If you take the g out of my name, it spells “mean”. :)
OH YEAH! I forgot. My bad.
That title is… CLOSE. But not quite there.
PLS SIR CAN I HAVE ANOTHER?
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AHAHAH THAT IS SO TRUE!!!!
If you take the alternate letters of my name starting with c, it spells cute.
CoUrTnEy
CLEARLY. WE WERE NAMED CORRECTLY.
…I’m so seeing an offshoot of John Green’s brotherhood 2.0 right now, the Courtney and Megan version….it’s already funnier. Don’t tell John and Hank I said that.
Pffft. If you take out and re-arrange some letters in your name, you can spell some other pretty fun words too. ;)
Yeah, yeah, I’m working on a “prettier” title, although admittedly not that hard as it is New Years Eve tonight, and New Years Day tomorrow. And we’re going back downtown for two days this weekend to see some people and pick up some baking powder.
Oh, I made quiche today, and pie crust. I am truly amazed at what you can do without an oven. :)
Intervention/zombie/Tegan&Sara brother/sister Action Team…
ACTIVATE!
I can’t believe you’d just put this task on Mean’s shoulders. What I megan to say is:
I’d love a crack at titling that bad-boy if she drops the ball. Seriously. Honestly. Please.
I like to title.
*does backflip into dumpster*
EM: … I am going to treasure that comment always. Seriously.
(My lips are zipped!)
Megan: Thank you. I appreciate you working on a prettier title for my pretty book. ;) HAPPY NEW YEAR, BB! And have fun downtown. I am so proud of your prowess with the oven. You’re turning into domestic diva, you know. wuv.
TKT: Ahahah! If you want a shot at the title, you’ll have to try with the same limited information she got. Which is: “It’s a novel about bullying.” I like to make these things a challenge, esp. for family members. And now my evil laugh: MWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA *gasp* AHAHAHHAA…
Your blog makes me laugh and laugh.
So, if you were a cartoon superhero, I’m pretty sure WHERE IS MY AUTOHARP! would make a pretty good battle cry.
Susan: Yay! Thank you. It is better that it does that than make you cry and cry.
A: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG. YESSS!!!
maybe not this one, but you should totally write a book called “spun sugar”
oooh! that won’t work for this one.. BUT I AM WRITING THAT DOWN. that’s really pretty.
<3!
LoL! Could I borrow your sister? I ask my husband for advice and all I get is *gush* *gush*. Which is nice in a warm fuzzy kind of way, but kind of short in the helpful department.
Becca: you can have her! no returns or exchanges. ;)
(just kidding, meg!)