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Insight 012 — THE TITLE

  • Alex Revival
  • 3 days ago
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DIALOGUE 2: THE TITLE

Maya spent six weeks on the title.

MAYA: "Whispers Between the Ash." Poetic. Mysterious. Literary.

LAPTOP: What genre is it?

MAYA: It's... it transcends genre.

LAPTOP: Amazon needs a category.

MAYA: Put it in Literary Fiction.

LAPTOP: Your last three readers came from "Paranormal Romance."

MAYA: That's because they connected with the themes—

LAPTOP: One of them left a review. "Expected vampires. Confused."

MAYA: ...

LAPTOP: What would you like the category to be?

MAYA: ...Literary Fiction.

LAPTOP: Okay.

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