#ScribesAndMakers March 6: How do you choose a title for your book?

I don't choose them so much as they come to me. My current book has only a working title, "The Order," which I find incredibly boring. It needs a better one.

In general, I like it if it's descriptive, evocative, but also mysterious. I want to draw people in.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 8: Is there a country other than your own that influences your creativity?'

I'm Canadian, so I'm eye-balls deep in American media, so that's a huge influence, and I'm a lit professor, so multiply Canadian anglophilia by 10; England is a gigantic influence. This is what it's like for us.

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#ScribesAndMakers 13 March: Do you read short stories as often as novels?

I teach, so I read a lot of short, medium, and long fiction. There's a difference between what I like and what "teaches well," so my reading experience is often split. If I sense something will work in class, I go down a different path in my head.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 15, Is the time you've had for creativity this month what you expected?

Yes.

Sigh.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 16: Convincing to read a book you don't care for.

You might not *enjoy* #JekyllAndHyde, but it's such a huge cultural touchstone (for anglophones) that you'd be doing yourself a favour to know how the original actually goes.

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@orionkidder

Truth! It is a great story though, and a good message. Good and evil lives happily side by side inside us all

@TeflonTrout @orionkidder The person who inspired the story, Deacon Brodie sounds like an absolute nightmare of a man. I've read only short summaries of his life; I think I'd prefer to research more about him.

One of the things I've heard was that the young Robert Louis Stevenson woke up one night to see Brodie staring at him from the foot of his bed.