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!
“A Peek Beneath the Kilt”
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And that’s all I’ve got!
How about:
Channel Surfing on the Loch
Memories of the Lady and the Laird
The Cottage of Long Ago Memories
This is Your Life, Caroline . . . Oh, I mean Sofia . . . Oh, I don’t know who I mean . . .
Finding Sophia’s Voice
Slains Abiding Love
The Once and Future Love
spamword – anything24: no way are you getting 24 titles out of me, even if they can be anything.
The Secrets of Slain’s Castle?
I don’t know… I’m like the rest and really want a book, lol!
I loved that show too!
let’s see…
History Remembered
Through the Eyes of History
The Whisper of Time
Through the Hourglass of Time
Misty Memories of Days Gone By
That’s all I could think of.
I suck at titles, but I want to win a book, so here we go:
Story From The Past
Hating Haggis is Hereditary
The Man With Two First Names
Carolyn’s Castle Cottage
Ugh. I can’t think of anything clever.
rebyj stole my idea!! GMTA
How about combining the UK and US titles, and come up with a mid-Atlantic compromise like Sophie’s Winter Secret? Or Sophie’s Winter Saicret, if we’re in Edinburgh?
I sure want to read this book!
I didn’t read any other posts, I do not want to be influenced by them.
Let’s try an oldie : Where’s My Hero?
or Stuart’s Enigma.
How about Lost in Time?
Although I’m not good with picking titles, I would like to read the book. Thanks for the contest.
How about “The Pull of the Tide”? Since the tides are cyclical, like history apparently, and it sounds like the heroine is being pulled in all kinds of directions by powerful forces beyond her control.
1.
Invasion of the Magic Hoo-Hoo on Stuart Keith’s Mighty Wang
2.
Lost in Luuuuurve™
3.
Castle of Lusty Wang
4.
Edinburgh Has a Secret
5.
The Vigorous (er…) Quill
6.
Scottish
Bodysnatchers
Bodyhumpers
7.
Sexy Scots, Dead Scots, and Writer’s Block
I love her books! How about “Secrets of the Past” or “Twice Lived, Twice Loved” or, a la Nancy Drew, “The Mystery of the Scottish Castle”.
Hmmmm-
Memories from Edinburgh
Ghost Writer
Sophia Speaks
Haunting Desires
Awakened Memories
Chock My Writers Block?
OK, it makes no sense, but it’s catchy.
Sophia and I
Rewritten
My Fictional Twin?
My Cultivation Theory-like identification of myself with a fictional character?
The Scottish Lady’s Lord’s Future Mistress Wife
Extra-Sensory Perception in Edinburgh: A Writer’s Tale
Sophia’s Serial Century Stalking Scenario
Falling In Love Is Twice As Hard (When You Have Two Brains In One Body)
Border Rising.
Rising Kilts
Kilts across the border.
They could just call it THE SECRET, and it would be an instant bestseller because people would pick it up thinking it’s the OTHER book with that title. 😉
OMG! I’m roaring over rebyj’s “Sophie on the Rocks!”
And yea! I get to use the tycoon-word today!!
The Scottish Tycoon’s Ghostwriting Mistress Hits Pay Dirt
The Memories Remain (thank you Metallica)
The Sands of Time
Inherited Haunt
The Heart Inscribed
Haunted Highlands
Dang! Wish I could think of a funny one!
The Wonder of Slains Castle
Shadows of the Past
Invasion of the Soul
Castles and Souls
A Private Room in My Soul
Inspiration from Inside
Channeling the Ancestor
Ancestral Bard
MindLink
The Keeper’s Cottage (assuming her cottage was the castle keeper’s in 1707)…
Hot Scots
I know they’re kind of lame, but I still want a chance at the book…
SamG
Family Ties
A Story That Binds
How about: Castle of Slain Dreams?
This is my first try and hopefully having the same name as the author (diffent spelling though) will bring me some luck. I’d love to read the book!!!!!!
Best wishes from Rio!
I heretofore exempt myself from this contest on the grounds that I actually OWN the book, but I wish to express my squee about this contest. *eagerly skims over everybody else’s entries*
Kearsley’s had my attention ever since The Shadowy Horses came out with the tagline on it reading “In the tradition of Barbara Michaels”. That was, as they say, Relevant to My Interests. <3
Memories from the Misty Sea
Wisps of Long Ago Winter
How about “A whisper in the wind”
The Memory Channeler
Let’s see, Hmm?
Echoes of the Heart
Second Time Around
When the Past Comes to Call
More than the Heart
Ok, here I go…
~Have we met?
~Channeling Sophia
~My Time or Yours?
~Her Scottish Good Luck Charm
~Her Not So Distant Relative (scratch that one! Sounds incestuous!)
Would really love a new book by an author I haven’t heard of before!
Great Scot!
Inherited Love
Chastise Poser (anagram of Sophia’s Secret)
In Sweet Heart (anagram of The Winter Sea)
🙂
The Invasion of Carolyn
Behold my attempts-
Love’s Reawakening
Love Remembers
Memories of Love
And where I gave up-
Sweet Scottish Sexing (Part II)
Dé?Jà Vujayjay
Gimme Gimme Moor, Gimme Moor
But I WOULD love to read that book!
Okay, I really want to win this book too, so I’ll give it a whirl too!
Ten Things to do in Edinburgh when You’re Reincarnated
Let All the Jacobites Boogie
Message in a Reincarnated Ghostwriter’s Bottle
Bridey Murphy Rides Again
I am really crap at this stuff but will have a go anyway:
The Jacobite’s Very Modern Love
Channelling Love
Timeless Hearts
The Laird and his Writer.
I did warn you that it would be crap!