A few days ago I got an email. The subject line was along the lines of "Congratulations on Voices!" and I didn't recognize the sender. Naturally, I assumed it was spam. Some little hindbrain twitch kept me from deleting it, however, and I opened it up, fully expecting a pitch regarding unclaimed African millions, breast enlargement or herbal Viagra. It was none of these, to my surprise. It was from someone in the marking department at the University of Nebraska Press introducing herself, and expressing enthusiasm about working with me on the promotion of my new book. My new book being Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak. This, quite naturally, caught me off-guard, since the working title of the book has been Cosmosis for more than a year. Curiosity piqued, I inquired as to when they'd planned on informing me of the change.
Nebraska: "Well, you know we never thought Cosmosis worked as a title at all."
Me: Um, no. I actually didn't. Nobody ever said anything to me about it.
Nebraska: Oops.
The long and short of it is that the interview collection is now titled Voices of Vision. Which is fine with me, because Cosmosis was simply a random, unused title I had sitting in the future projects bin that seemed non-committal enough to use for said interview collection. Voices of Vision is much more descriptive of the actual book content, and has a kind of visual resonance I think will work well. It also has the added benefit of freeing up Cosmosis for whatever future writing project that may or may not attach itself to the title.
Thus ends today's lesson in the importance of good communication. Ain't publishing a strange beast?
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