Since most books (except changes which clearly is a huge turning point even more so than usual) have a 2 word title i was wondering if there was a cool story, some significance, or just why they happen to be the same length (fool and moon are both 4 letter words, grave peril are both 5, etc.)?
Also dude sweeeeeeeet books man
Audience: I was just wondering about the titles of the books, how they're all two words and both words are always the same number of letters. Why did you choose to do that?Jim Butcher: Okay. He's asking about the titles of the books, why are the books always two words, same number of letters. Answer to that was that I had noticed when I was in college and in my writing courses that all of the really successful, or most of the really successful serial P.I. novels had a naming scheme of some kind attached to them. MacDonald's books, John MacDonald's books all had a color in the name. A is Alibi, B is for Burglar, etc. with the Kinsey Millhone books. It was the same way with several different authors that I looked at. So, I said, 'I need a naming scheme,' and I was going to use puns because I thought that would be fun. And so I was trying to get pun stuff set up and they didn't, they didn't like that. The editors didn't like that at all. So, the first book, I think the original name was Semiautomagic and then I said, 'Can we call it Abracadaver?' and they said, 'No, we can't.' And I went through several different names and it finally ended up as Storm Front, which was only kind of vaguely a pun. But they did it in these nice square little boxes with the title all being lined up. And so I said, 'Well, hey, the next one was already going to be called Fool Moon, so that one will line up too.' And so at that point, then I said, 'Okay, the only pattern I'm going to have here is where we line up these little boxes. So, let's at least keep that.' Until we got to this book, which is called Changes and totally breaks the pattern...presumably because there's going to be some changes. So...yes, ma'am?
