It’s Sophia’s Secret, it’s The Winter Sea and it can be a touch hard to find in stores in the US. But I’ve got ten copies of the soon-to-be-released mass-market edition of The Winter Sea courtesy of Susanna Kearsley and her marvelous publisher to give away to Bitchery readers.
Since the response to my linkage to her interview in The Toronto Star was so effusive among her fans, I figure there’s at least 10 readers here who would like to give her book a try. So, if you’d like a copy, leave a comment. To make it fun, since the book already has two titles, why not create a third? Here’s the description:
Carolyn McClelland, a writer of historical novels, finds herself with a familiar enemy; writer’s block.
A change of scenery leads her, and her book, in a whole new direction. Writing about the attempted Jacobite invasion of 1707, Carolyn takes up residence in a cottage in Edinburgh. Inexplicably drawn to Slains Castle, and not so inexplicably drawn to the charming, but somehow familiar, Stuart Keith, Carolyn is soon writing with an unusual speed and imagery which leads her to wonder whether her ‘fictional’ character of Sophia is really so fictional after all.
Carolyn soon realises that she is somehow channelling the memories of her distant relative and that her story has a life of its own.
So what kinds of fun titles can we come up with? Clearly two is not nearly enough. The Scot, the Scribe, and the Secret? The Reincarnated Writer’s Boardroom Mistress? Castled for the Writer’s Block? Whee! I’ll pick 10 winners at random, and send out your books as soon as they arrive at Bitchery HQ. You have 24 hours – ready, set, go!
I so stink at coming up with titles.
How about The Thistle Quill?
Or Sophia’s Scribe?
Edinburgh Enchantment?
See—all awful! But hopefully, I can win the contest as I really want to read this book!
I suck at titles… just ask anyone!
The Channel
Whispering Secrets
Castle Secrets
I want a book (whine)
Journey to the Past
…yeah, I suck at titles, too. But had to give it a shot!
The Ghostwriter’s Tale
(throwing my name in the hat)
“Carolyn Channels a Clansmen”
“Slains Seance”
“The Scottish Peat Tycoon’s Reincarnated Bride from Beyond the Pale”
“Voices in the Castle”
This is fun. 🙂
I thought of a few, and by far the worst and my favorite is the truly awful The Fog of Unforgetting.
Eww!
The book looks terrific. I hope it’s as gothic as it sounds.
Oh!
I love it.
“Cold Feet and Ink Smudges”
Thought process- Scotland, burr—cold! Wintery Sea… running into cold water. Cold feet destined to meet poor sleeping unsuspecting, innocent husband. Writing, ink, smudging ink on husband—haha! Poor guy gets woken up looking like the long lost member of kiss by my cold feet on his legs. He’s gotta work at 5 in the morning—meh!
“Ghost Scribe”
“Sophia’s Scottish Spirit”
“The Slain Spirit”
This is harder than I expected!
As many of the above, I have horrible titular ability.
An Old Place
How about:
Between a Block and Hard Place
or
The Castle Lord’s Forbidden Virgin Writer
How about “Souls of Scotland”?
I also liked the “Ghostwriter” idea even though it reminds me of my favorite TV series on PBS when I was a kid!
What about ….
Love Reborn
Somewhere in Time
The Possessed Writer
Imagination Unfurled
The Scottish Sensation
Love in A Crubmbling Castle
You Can Write Without Me
A Ghost of An Idea
The Past Beckons
Without You
The Shinning (Scottish for Shining, well you get the idea)…
Sorry, that should have been
You Can’t Write Without Me
The Scot’s Tale
Channel Surfing
When in doubt, allude to the classics:
SCOTS AND SCRUTABILITY, or, Gene Heir
Past, Remembered
Reboot Love or Love Reboot
It’s lame, I know.
I really want a book…
I’m going to go silly: The Jacobite’s Reincarnated Mistress.
Or: Once More, with Feeling.
By Scots Inspired!
Lame, very lame. Tsk tsk..
I really want a book too.
crap I suck at this.
the stormy coast
The winters writer
Whispers from the Past
Roaming in the gloming with a ghostie by her side.
Great Aunt Sophia’s Memoirs
My mind is blank today, alas, so my title sucks bananas. I’m throwing my name into the hat anyway…
ME,ME, ME and I’m awful with titles. How about
The Passionate Jacobite and the Modern Miss.
UGH!
Scottish Memory Returns
Auld Lange Scotland
Worse and worse.
How about…
“Romancing the Blockhead”
or
“Nepotism, Plagiarism, Tomato, Tomahto, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off”
or
“Hey Baby, Your Lifetime or Mine?”
Really? I know that was the year the two Parliaments were united, unwillingly in Scotland’s view, but who would the Jacobites have tried to invade except for England? Sorry, but that sentence reads as if the Jacobites were invading Scotland, probably my brain’s way of trying to circumvent my truly terrible titles:
Invasion of the Scottish Ghostwriter
By Haggis Alone
Sophia’s Secret Winter
The Jacobites Are Coming! The Jacobites Are Coming!
A Cottage in Edinburgh
Cottage by the Winter Sea
Been There, Doon That
I can’t even title my own stories, but I’d really like to read this book!
Once Upon an Invasion
You Can’t Escape Your Relatives (even three hundred years later)
Castle Past, Future Love
Written from the Past
The Presence of Sophia
Memories of Love
This would probably be easier if I’d read the book. . .
Return to Slains Castle.
I love Kearsley’s books.
It’s Just My Imagination or Is It?
Deja Vu All Over Again
Boil, Boil, Writing This Book is Turning Into Too Much Trouble
Back to Scotland with My Crazy Dead Relative
Memories Past
Breakthrough
Crumbling Wall
Overcoming the Block
Past Influences
Writerly Affairs
Penning the Memories
Channeling the Past
Okay, I figure that’s enough for now. 🙂
Sophia’s Secret Sea Baby? Sophia’s Secret Scottish Winter?
Secrets of a Scottish Winter?
Sophie on the Rocks!
“Slains Slave”
Sophia’s Slain Secret
Stuart Slays Secret
Sounds like a good book. 😀
Let’s see now…
Scots Wha’ Writ
Jacob Bites
The Granite Sophy
Yeah, I know, these suck. I’m too tired from work to think right now.
I love Susanna Kearsley’s books! My absolute fave is “The Shadowy Horses.”
And here are the wages of overcaffeination:
“My Luv is Like a Dead, Dead Ghost”
“My Bonnie Lies Over the Manuscript”
“Sophia Carolyn Edinburgh”
“King Over the Water 2: Revenge of the Words”
Oh man, I’m so bad coming up with titles.
A Winter Wind Blows Through the Kilt
The Pen is Mighty
The Write Stuff
Never read her before. But here goes with my silly title. The Winter Sea: Deja Woo-woo
The Scottish Laird’s Time-Channeling Mistress
Och, Where’d the Time Go?