Visit Brady Hammes's website.How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?
The title works on a couple different levels. All three of the my characters have run their lives into the ground and are now forced to correct their crooked paths. So in a way, they’re all resolving to do better, though the mechanics of that process elude them for most of the book. The novel is also set around the holidays, with the final scene taking place on New Year’s Day, so the idea of a resolution seemed sort of fitting. The title actually came late in the process. When I sold the book it was called The Bygones, and it...[read on]
Q&A with Brady Hammes.
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