How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?Learn more about the author and her work at Midge Raymond's website.
I hope it pulls readers right in! This was a tough book to title because Floreana has two narrators—women who, a century apart, struggle with love, family, and buried secrets—and it’s set in two eras on one island that has changed remarkably in the past hundred years. It was challenging to find a title that would incorporate a real-life, unsolved murder mystery, penguin conservation, and two women who seem very different but whose struggles are very similar despite the years between them. In the end, my hope is that the title Floreana offers a sense of place and of...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: My Last Continent.
Writers Read: Midge Raymond (June 2016).
The Page 69 Test: Floreana.
Q&A with Midge Raymond.
--Marshal Zeringue
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