psychotick
Dangerously confused
Hi,
Odd question. I'm just finishing up my next epic fantasy "Shavarra" ready for editing, and got the cover back from my artist (An elf holding a flaming sword). I put the cover out on a facebook group for comments and the one comment that kept coming back was Shannara.
Now my book has no relation to Terry Brook's works - it's just a similarity of names. But it annoys me that the issue came up because I don't see the connection. (It annoys me too that I didn't consider the similarity since I have the Sword of ... sitting on my shelves.)
Anyway, now having gone through my irked phase, I've sent off an email to my artist to change the title. Lord help me if "Samual" is too close to the bone!
But my question is this. How close is too close when it comes to titles? I mean I'll take the hit for changing the title since it is my decision and I don't want others making the same incorrect connection. But at what point do you sit there and say it's just a coincidence? Yeah the name sounds similar but that's it?
Cheers, Greg.
Odd question. I'm just finishing up my next epic fantasy "Shavarra" ready for editing, and got the cover back from my artist (An elf holding a flaming sword). I put the cover out on a facebook group for comments and the one comment that kept coming back was Shannara.
Now my book has no relation to Terry Brook's works - it's just a similarity of names. But it annoys me that the issue came up because I don't see the connection. (It annoys me too that I didn't consider the similarity since I have the Sword of ... sitting on my shelves.)
Anyway, now having gone through my irked phase, I've sent off an email to my artist to change the title. Lord help me if "Samual" is too close to the bone!
But my question is this. How close is too close when it comes to titles? I mean I'll take the hit for changing the title since it is my decision and I don't want others making the same incorrect connection. But at what point do you sit there and say it's just a coincidence? Yeah the name sounds similar but that's it?
Cheers, Greg.