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[Poll #523787]

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[redbird]

Fey has the advantage of suggesting fantasy, and the disadvantage of being somewhat archaic.

I don't like "the other city" because it's not the other city, it's this city, my city--we are not the other.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your input! I was worried about exactly that with the "other" -- both fairies and gayfolk are other to many, and I think the parallels are interesting, but not to ourelves.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

To be honest, it sounds like *exactly* the kind of thing I'd like to read, but none of these titles would make me pick it up. If you want the title to suggest the content you might need a longer title or title & subtitle anyway: short titles work if the genre can be summed up in one word, but this is different enough that one wouldn't recognize it from a short title.

Not that I can come up with a suggestion, mind...

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nods* The hopefully-publisher likes short titles, so I didn't want to get too long. A subtitle might work, thanks! I don't mind so much if the title doesn't suggest homoerotic, since the context it's offered in will. I do want it to suggest both urban and fantasy, though.

[missionista.livejournal.com]

How about something like "In the Alleys and Doorways", so that there's alreaady the promise of action and possibilities in the title. Very urban. And hey, what better place to have hot homoerotic canoodling?

[dodyskin.livejournal.com]

hot homoerotic canoodling

...Passages? ;)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Heh. Connie Willis used that title recently, so I hadn't better. :)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Hee! I don't want to get *too* specific. I'm all for liminal spaces, but presumably some of these characters will have beds. :)

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

I like The Other City because it nicely correlates the "otherness" of both genre fiction and homosexuality.

Alleys and Doorways gave me a giggle, I must admit, and not really in a good way. *g*

(Sometimes I'm twelve.)

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I'll definitely use The Other City as a title for something on that theme -- an essay or a story of my own -- since it wasn't a popular choice.

Actually the giggle-worthy one was by far the biggest winner, but I'll probably do a run off of the top 3 with radio buttons to see what people like when they can't check multiple options.