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For My Summer Darlings, title was very important to me. This one came to out of the blue, and very much hints at the villain's manipulation of the main characters. I also wanted to make clear that it was a summer book! There was some back and forth with my editor about the title - we considered naming it something else - but at the end of the day My Summer Darlings won out!
What's in a name?
I think the name that was most important to me as I sat down to write My Summer Darlings was the name of...[read on]
Q&A with May Cobb.
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