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A Shop Girl’s Guide to Wooing a Lord tells readers exactly what they are getting in this book. It’s a class divide romance featuring a lower-class woman and an upper-class man. Of course, there is so much more to the book than this trope, but my publishing team and I saw the title as a window into one of the central conflicts in the novel. When you’re titling a book set in the past, additional points to consider are what words were in use in that time and whether those words are still in use today and how much the connotation of those words has changed. For example, as the book opens the female main character sells flowers for a living; she’s a flower girl. But today a flower girl is a little girl who scatters flowers before the bride walks down the aisle, so that description wouldn’t work. There’s a lot of brainstorming and discussion and trial and error before...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord.
Q&A with Shana Galen.
--Marshal Zeringue
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