As is often the way of such things in publishing land, those wiser in the ways of such things than I have decreed that the book formerly known as The Mirable Chalice shall have a new title. And the winner is, The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle! Hooray!

After we decided on the new name I kept thinking that there was some other reason I liked it that I couldn’t identify. I finally realized it’s because one of my favorite authors, Lloyd Alexander, wrote a book titled The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian. Hopefully that will be a good omen for Prunella! The realization was particularly interesting to me because back in March or so I was struggling horribly with a very confidence-battering rewrite of MMPB. At one point, in a particularly dire mood, I picked up The Wand and the Word, a series of interviews with authors of children’s fantasy, and was reading the interview with Alexander. I got to the part where he talked about the difficulties he had writing a certain book, and how he ended up rewriting it twice. I instantly felt better about my situation, and soldiered on, and now MMPB is going off to copy-edits! Anyways, that book that needed the two rewrites was The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, a fact I only remembered when I just went back to look up the reference.

Now I just need to train my brain to think of it with the new name. It might also help if I had a shorter way to refer to it, since typing that all out every time is going to be a lot of keystrokes.

On a not particularly related note, here’s something about Fortune’s Folly (which I always thought might end up retitled, but didn’t). I don’t plan to be hunting up reviews and posting them here constantly, especially since I’ve determined that I will probably go insane if I do, but I had to make note of what I think is my first book blog review for Fortune’s Folly over here at kidliterate. She liked it, yay!