A fellow tiquee would like some help…
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Posted by Cynthea on January 25th, 2007 filed in random stuff | 9 Comments »
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A fellow tiquee asked Snoop for help on a manuscript title based on a query letter synopsis. As Tamarak and Snoop’s agent know, Snoop really really stinks at titling. So without further ado, can anyone help this writer with a title?
Melanie Ratsnester never, in a million years, imagined she would be teased about anything other than her name. But then her single mom since forever decides to completely ruin her life by marrying a Mortician. No matter how much she desperately pleads, Melanie is pulled from her comfortable life in the big city and is forced to adjust to small town life, population 2,001. A town where the dead outnumber the living.
It isn’t long before Melanie is suddenly labeled as the outsider, the butt of jokes, the hot topic of gossip. Of course it doesn’t help when the cemetery is her backyard, the mortuary is only feet away, and she’s picked up from school in a hearse. People say she sleeps in a coffin, they call her family the “Addam’s Family” and somehow she never becomes old news. The gossip becomes more creative, though not entirely untrue. Melanie discovers humor can overcome any situation and learns that sometimes…the dead are more pleasant than the living.
BASED ON THIS INFO, WHAT TITLE FOR THIS STORY POPS INTO YOUR HEAD THAT WOULD CATCH YOUR EYE SAY, IF YOU’RE IN A BOOKSTORE?
Thanks for your help!
Hmmm… Mortified just popped into my head playing on mortician and embarassed.
Growing up in small town in south Texas, small towns always make me think of Dairy Queens, so my suggestion is “A Dairy Queen and Dead People”
Ok I just noticed the population is 2,001 so how about
2001: A Place Oddity
How about Mortician’s Daughter, or Living and Dying in xxxx(insert name of town),
I thought that suggestion on LJ was pretty cool. Here Lies…. That one. But again, I’m no judge.
Funny. But it seems to take the focus off your hook which is the whole mortician thing…
Here’s a dozen or so …
Ratsnester’s Cemetery
My Goofy Life With Death
My Friends, the Dead
The Friendly Dead
Death’s Laughing Stepdaughter
So What’s Wrong With The Dead, Anyway?
Why My School Bus Is A Hearse,
or,
I Really Could Walk, Mom
At Least Corpses Don’t Gossip
Graveyard Gossip
Graveyard Giggles
Mom’s Mortician and Me
Mom, the Mortician, and Me
Stand-up Death
A Boy, A Girl And A Kangaroo Walk Into a Mortuary
Comedy and Corpses
Help! My Mom Buried Me Alive!
Buried Alive in ??? (town name)
or just Buried Alive
Hahhahaa! My favorite – just for kicks – title is the one involving a marsupial. Too funny.
Anyhow, Janet, thanks for your contributions. I believe the fellow tiquee was able to use one of your suggestions with a slight twist on it. Good work!