Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2009-02-17 10:04:00
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Title -- I hope the last post with this name!
The book formerly known as ILE will be published next Spring by Tor under the title:

Among Others.

And at this point, I don't care if you like it or not, I like it and PNH likes it and it works for the story on different levels, so there we have it.

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[info]apis_mellifera
2009-02-17 03:05 pm UTC (link)
A fine title! Looking forward to reading it! :)

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[info]lethargic_man
2009-02-17 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Who came up with it?

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[info]papersky
2009-02-17 03:28 pm UTC (link)
My next-door neighbour and chair of this year's Worldcon, Rene Walling.

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[info]ron_newman
2009-02-17 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Who did a marvelous job interviewing you, by the way.

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[info]papersky
2009-02-17 08:43 pm UTC (link)
I think so too.

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[info]dd_b
2009-02-17 03:10 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to ignore the cue not to do this, and say I think that's quite a decent title for that book. And congrats on selling it!

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[info]papersky
2009-02-17 03:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad you like it.

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[info]sovay
2009-02-17 03:31 pm UTC (link)
The book formerly known as ILE will be published next Spring by Tor

Yay!

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[info]casacorona
2009-02-17 03:32 pm UTC (link)
I like it a great deal. It's a very good title for the book, works on many different levels.

(yes, I've read it)

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[info]txanne
2009-02-17 03:39 pm UTC (link)
Hurray!

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[info]ron_newman
2009-02-17 03:41 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad you finally have a title, and I look forward to reading the book.

By "next spring" you mean 2010, not this year?

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[info]papersky
2009-02-17 04:50 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I mean 2010. They have to do all sorts of things in between now and then. Copyedit, proofs, cover, sending out review copies etc.

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[info]mcpye
2009-02-18 11:18 pm UTC (link)
Oh well, I did think that September-November this year might be a bit fast for they way they do books these days *wry*

But Yay! indeed for publication, nominated whichever way.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2009-02-17 03:44 pm UTC (link)
Hooray!

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[info]shewhomust
2009-02-17 03:45 pm UTC (link)
It's certainly a title that would make me pick up a book to see what it's about.

And delights me too as an example of how, when you are pursuing a particular strand of thought, and niggling about quite fine difference, the pleasing answer is one that arrives from somewhere completely different and at right angles to the line you were agonising along. (And when I say 'you' I mean 'me', obviously!)

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[info]drplokta
2009-02-17 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Hooray!

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[info]sartorias
2009-02-17 04:10 pm UTC (link)
Oh wow, that's an evocative title, and yes, it really works. How did you come at that? It is a view from a totally different angle than the prev. titles/

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[info]papersky
2009-02-17 04:53 pm UTC (link)
We've been trying to think of a title for a long time, as you know. And so we've been asking our friends to help. Rene had been editing program participant bios, and it seems that lots of authors say "I have written X and Y, among others" and he was cutting "among others" every time because there was so much repetition of it. And that made him think of Among Others as a real book title -- he was thinking for a collection, but the more I thought about it the more it really worked for this novel. So yes.

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[info]sartorias
2009-02-17 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Oh, wow.

The more I tell it over in my mind, the more I just love it.

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[info]zsero
2009-02-17 05:02 pm UTC (link)
So next time you submit such a bio, you could list "...., and Among Others, among others".

I still think someone should write a book called "Rather Like the Archers" or "A Bit Like the Archers", possibly with ldots before or after. Or perhaps "Not At All Like the Archers"; no ldots with that one, though.

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[info]redbird
2009-02-17 06:06 pm UTC (link)
To go with "The Death of Doctor Island and Other Stories, and Other Stories."

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[info]ron_newman
2009-02-17 05:23 pm UTC (link)
Love it!

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X and Y
[info]amberley
2009-02-17 06:27 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that way of thinking of it makes me like it quite a bit, but I was going to buy it regardless of what it wound up getting called. I'm looking forward to it!

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[info]stevenagy
2009-02-17 04:14 pm UTC (link)
Works for you, works for the editor, works for the story pretty much covers everything. :-)

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[info]llennhoff
2009-02-17 04:30 pm UTC (link)
It doesn't sound like a YA title, which was the problem from our brainstorming at the kaffeklatsch.

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[info]papersky
2009-02-17 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. A lot of the potentially good titles for this book sound YA.

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[info]llennhoff
2009-02-17 05:17 pm UTC (link)
Although I have a fondness for "A science fiction reader with a fantasy problem." That's way too long though.

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[info]sylvia_rachel
2009-02-17 04:47 pm UTC (link)
Yay! (And I know we're not meant to say if we like it or not, but I do.)

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[info]rushthatspeaks
2009-02-17 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Yay! I look forward, as I very much like the bit I've heard.

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[info]fledgist
2009-02-17 05:09 pm UTC (link)
That's a great title.

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[info]caindog
2009-02-17 05:09 pm UTC (link)
As a bonus, just think how easy it will be to come up with titles for the next books in the series: the protagonist goes to China in Hmong Others, returns home in Among Brothers, settles down and joins the PTA in Among Mothers, and breaks free to live at Sea World in Among Otters. They practically market themselves.

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[info]rivka
2009-02-17 05:18 pm UTC (link)
Keeping in mind that it doesn't matter if I like it or not, I do like it, and I agree that it works. Yay title!

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[info]muuranker
2009-02-17 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Ditto. Not so yay for the wait. Added to the wanted list on my librarything.

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[info]redbird
2009-02-17 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Yay title!

It seems a fine title to me, but the main point is to have a title and get the book out there so we can buy and read it.

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[info]rezendi
2009-02-17 06:14 pm UTC (link)
Hurrah!

Also, that's actually quite an intriguing title.

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[info]nineweaving
2009-02-17 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Now I'm thinking of it as Cwm Alias.

Can't wait to read it.

Hurrah!

Nine

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[info]ashnistrike
2009-02-17 07:17 pm UTC (link)
Huzzah for having found a title, and double huzzah for having a publication date!

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[info]gwynnega
2009-02-17 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Yay!!

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[info]athenais
2009-02-17 07:20 pm UTC (link)
I do like the title very much, but what's really exciting is there's a publication date!

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[info]tournevis
2009-02-17 07:41 pm UTC (link)
I do like it. I lot!

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[info]adrian_turtle
2009-02-17 08:08 pm UTC (link)
I am very glad you found a title you're happy with, so you don't have to fret about it any more.

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[info]lydy
2009-02-17 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations on finding a title.

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[info]xiphias
2009-02-17 08:41 pm UTC (link)
The more I think about it, the more I like it.

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[info]calanthe_b
2009-02-17 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Yay! Congratuations!

(And I love that title).

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[info]bibliotrope
2009-02-18 08:04 am UTC (link)
I agree that "Among Others" is a good title -- intriguing, as [info]rezendi says. I'm looking forward to reading it.

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[info]ethelmay
2009-02-18 09:45 pm UTC (link)
It's a great title. The Library of Congress site shows two other books of that name (one from 1938 and one from 1998), but neither looks likely to be confused with yours.

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