How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?Visit Jennie Liu's website.
I had a working title, Aging Out, that I wasn’t crazy about, but it essentially summed up that this was a novel about girls aging out of an orphanage. When an editor mentioned she didn’t like the title much either, my agent and I tossed ideas back and forth for a couple of weeks. She came up with On the Line, which I loved for the double entendre of the moral-socio-emotional lines that challenge the girls and the factory line where they go to work. I added Girls, and it wasn’t until the book came out, during an interview, that I remembered I had been reading other suspense novels, Girl on the Train and Gone Girl just before I had started writing. I suppose...[read on]
My Book, The Movie: Girls on the Line.
Writers Read: Jennie Liu (November 2018).
The Page 69 Test: Girls on the Line.
Q&A with Jennie Liu.
--Marshal Zeringue
Posts
