Reconsidering the Title
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My first book was a fictionalized version of my experiences with the revolutionary Training and work on the phone lines for San Francisco Sex Information - the odd assembly of folks who volunteer for such a job and the even odder assortment of folks who call in anonymously with their sex and relationship questions. Our original title was Aural Sex & Verbal Intercourse. After many interviews in which I consistently had to spell the first word (perish the thought that a book about sex might suggest a blow job) and correcting those who thought the book was about mystical sex with auras, the publishers retitled the second edition: Sex Information, May I Help You?!
So, reader, I ask you: wherein lay the misstep, with the original title or the second edition?
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Charles Purdy says:
Hmmmmm.
I wonder where you think the problem lay! I like both titles, to be honest -- I think the second edition's title "scans" better. (Though the fact that you went to a second edition at all says that the first title worked pretty well.)
Thanks for sharing the story, Isadora.
Best,
Charles Purdy (Red Room)