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I have a title for the second book in my Poisoned Apple series - YAY!

I've fought through the awful - The Wicked Queen - chosen because there's an actress in the book who has the stage name 'The Vintage Queen' and because I wanted to go for a fairy tale title again.

Then I thought I'd found magic with - Big Bad Wolf - because there's like a werewolf in the story, so obviously that was soooooo intelligent.

Then I struggled with a million other titles all referring to fairy tales. Am I writing a fairy tale? Err, no. The title of the first book and this blog was born because a character in it 'Apple' is well a wee bit poisonous. Hence - well you get where I'm going with it.

So then (light at the end of the tunnel and all that) I decided the next book should refer to a character as well, so we have:

STRANGE BONES

Because Larry Bones is acting rather strangely this time around. He's given away his time-shifting watch and has signed up for the school play.

Oh, and if you hate the title - because I am not convinced that it's good and I am worried it doesn't gel well with book one's title (The Poisoned Apple) - then please speak up, otherwise you will have to carefully place your hand over the title when reading the book.

This post is Certificate 18!!!!

I'm fuming, fuming, fuming... Spitting feathers... Punching the wall... WTF!!!

You may guess from the above that I have a few anger issues, and I suggest if you work for a bank that you click away now.

My 'Personal Banker' (feel free to replace the B with a different letter) has just phoned for the third time in a month to try and get me to go into the local branch. You see my loan is nearly finished - by nearly I mean I only have two more payments and then I'm done, fingers crossed and all that - and the PB is afraid one of his cash machines is going to dry up. Now as we all know, if he gets me to sign up for another 'oh I so need it not' loan he gets a nice little bonus in his already hefty paycheck.

Now before anyone says he's only doing his job - persuading people into debt - bear in mind he phoned me again (third time people and he's already been told 'not interested), and then had the audacity to laugh at me because, to quote 'don't I want him to save me money'. How in this world or any other is my taking out further debt going to save me anything!!!

Laughing at customers as if they're idiots, that has to be in a book marked 'How to lose friends and alienate people.'

Okay rant over, you can relax now.

The Poisoned Apple is going at a snail's pace in comparison to The Evil Emporium, but I am pleased with what I have so far written so that's something I guess. And the arrival of Larry Bones has added an injection of much needed humour.


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