How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?Visit James L. Sutter's website.
Titles are both difficult for me and absolutely crucial—I want something that immediately conveys to the reader what the book is about. In the case of The Ghost of Us, I wanted people to know that it's about a ghost-hunter, and also that it's a love story. Of course, there's also a deeper resonance to the title, beyond just marketing: the book is a sapphic YA supernatural romance about a teenage ghost hunter who finds a ghost, but the ghost won't give her the evidence she needs to get famous unless she first agrees to take his little sister to the prom. So the "us" in the title refers to both the romance between the two girls, but also the complicated emotional bond between the sister and...[read on]
Q&A with James L. Sutter.
--Marshal Zeringue
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