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A good title is doing several things at once: it’s catching a reader’s attention, it’s helping a reader (and bookseller or librarian) place a book in context with others, i.e., what genre, sub-genre, and which other writers might be similar to, and finally it is a connection into the story, one that should go deeper as the reader dives in so that by the end, its meaning is layered.
Keep This for Me is an evocative title. It doesn’t explain itself immediately. “Keep what for me?” a reader might understandably ask. Without knowing what specifically is being kept, the title should make the reader think about holding on to something (or someone), about memory, and about objects that...[read on]
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--Marshal Zeringue