Jaunt Round the Blogosphere! Also, I Need a Title!
blog, you blog, he/she/it blogs...I'm visiting blogs and bloggers today that I haven't had a chance to visit in weeks. Come with me!
First we're off to see Ninja Captain Alex Cavanaugh... And then over to Hilary in England...
And Trisha in Australia!
And Trisha in Australia!
Then it's off to see:
The DMS
For ROW80, I have a new goal this week -- I have to change the title of At Summer's End. Here's the blurb:
Having completed her medical studies at home in Canada, Ayşe is visiting her grandparents in Istanbul for an extended break before throwing herself into residency work. Her vacation heats up a notch when she meets Hakan, who is working for Doctors Without Borders in southern Turkey.
They share an intense afternoon on a sun-drenched, secluded rooftop -- and then he disappears.
Just when Ayşe's decided to chalk up their affair as a one-time pleasure, he's back -- calling from the camps where he’s based, asking her to join him. She's got this summer for leaps of faith, before she returns to real life and responsibility, and when Hakan meets her at the bus station the next day, a passionate interlude on a desolate hilltop reinforces all that he’s already come to mean to her. Yet when she meets the other doctors at the camps and discovers he’s been hiding a life-altering secret, she remembers why she's always put work before relationships. Until now.
For once Ayşe will have to trust her heart, and give Hakan a chance to prove his good intentions, if she decides they'll be together at summer's end.
It's an erotic short story, and I need a suitably steamy title...
Speaking of summer, would you believe I haven't gone swimming at all yet this summer? I've got to get in the lake this weekend!
Please share some blogs you think everyone should visit!
Can you think of a title for my short story?
Can you think of a title for my short story?
Comments
Thanks for including me in the jaunt!
I am also drawing blanks. :(
Thanks for visiting!
Why do you have to change the name? I think it works and sounds great. But, I know there are reasons....Hmmmm....Maybe something that plays into summer loving/fling. Something about trust? No, that's not very steamy.
I can't even name my own WIP.
Good luck!
Also, love your back cover blurb; I would absolutely want to read more just based on that. (One sentence confused me though. "She's got this summer for leaps of faith..." That's such an odd usage of the colloquialism that I wasn't sure what to make of it.)
As for titles, I'll be honest, I like Summer's End. With the right cover art (something exotic and oh-so-Turkish), all the "heat" will come through.
-Taylor
PS: Super surprised and pleased to see my blog on your list of visits. Thanks so much for the shout out!
I love that you incorporated exotic locals together with Doctors Without Borders and romance--wonderful mix there. Steamy title: Hearts Without Borders. Okay, that may be to cutsie, but couldn't help myself.
The topic of Doctors Without Borders within the story of Summer's End - or it's new title sounds a great idea, especially as you know Turkey so well. Summer's End that pulsates with steamy thoughts ... A Summer's End that Throbs ... probably not good titles - but perhaps ideas ...
Cheers and good luck - enjoy the weekend - Hilary
Title: Summer's Peak
This sounds like an interesting erotic book. Just what I need to stir up some hormones.
Hmm, I'm notoriously bad at titles. Playing on the camps angle, how about Love In Tents? As in "intense". Probably doesn't work if you have to explain it. Ah well, I told you I was bad!
That story sounds amazing! I love that it's got a Turkish guy in it and is sit in Turkey.
I can't think of a title... argh. Have you come up with one yet?