Sunday, October 3, 2010

Name my Book!

I'm not dead, the blog's not dead, but Greg Giraldo--one of the world's funniest--is. I've taken a little break from blogging to really focus on the rougher part of the new novel. While I've been paining over how best to introduce Juan "John" Hernandez, the Mexican-American with long Spanish heritage who is also a Nazi skin head, I've also been hard at work coming up with a really good title for the book.
This is where you guys can help!

The working title is THE DETOUR, but I don't like it because it has a serious weight to it, and I can see the book cover being a forest of bare trees with a forking road like this:

Except it would also be in blue and there'd be a raven taking flight or something, which is not at all the tone of my book.

Here are others I've fooled with:
*A Chris Hansen Detour; a play on the "To Catch a Predator" style introduction of my co-main character, Jolene.
*Pen and Ink Detour
*Her Hair was Purple and Her Gun was Loaded
*A Detour on the way to Comic-Con
*Finnegan Peck and the Anime Girl
I'm open to any other suggestions!

To help, here is a brief explanation of the story:
Finnegan Peck is an aspiring comic book creator working at a coffee shop. On his way home from work, he see's a small sign by the side of the road with an arrow drawn on it. Following that sign he finds a trail of others that lead to an abandoned warehouse. Inside, he meets the girl of his dreams. She's got purple hair, an Anime t-shirt, and a military potty mouth. To him, her only downside is that she also has a gun aimed at his heart.
After escaping that danger, the rest of the story involves Finn running--sometimes away and sometimes towards--a list of odd ball characters including; A Nazi Skinhead with an accent straight out of Fargo, a Police Detective on suspension, an insane ex-girlfriend, a gay Armenian with an Indie band, and the purple haired Anime girl.

Thanks in advance for the help, and send God a shout out for Greg if you're so inclined.

5 comments:

  1. no clue what to name your book. but is sounds great!

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  2. I actually thought of that one, or one very similar, but I axed it only because Finn doesn't actually die.
    That might be stupid...

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  3. gunpowder heart
    purple detour
    purple hair detour
    the purple harajuku and Finn

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  4. Good adds, Abby. The thinking cap is still on, though, and the grumpy hat is going to come out if I don't sort this quick!

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