Sunday, February 18, 2024

Q&A with Sara Ochs

From my Q&A with Sara Ochs, author of The Resort: A Novel:
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

This is quite the loaded question when it comes to my debut, which actually has two different titles depending on where it’s being sold in the world. While my U.S. publisher is releasing the book under the title The Resort, it is actually already being sold in the U.K. and throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand as The Dive. A lot of this boils down to behind-the-scenes marketing and publicity (and can be attributed to people who are much savvier than me!), but it has certainly generated some confusion.

How surprised would your teenage reader self be by your new novel?

My teenage self would be...[read on]
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Q&A with Sara Ochs.

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