Comments on: What a Scandal

By: worki gruzowe Gdansk

worki gruzowe Gdansk — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:45:58 +0000

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By: Anika Guster

Anika Guster — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:19:43 +0000

I didn’t know that. Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me. I’ll be sure to come back to see what else you can teach me!

By: Lexie Bartoli

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By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:55:56 +0000

This post made me laugh. I just finished reading “A Tale of Two Lovers,” by Maya Rodale. This book is very much about scandal (two scandals, in fact); the scandals drive the plot. The heroine actually refers to herself as Lady Scandalous in the book! And yet, it does not have scandal in the title. For once, scandal would have made sense in the title, but instead, it’s something else that, to me, has no connection to the story.

By: Karen Hawkins

Karen Hawkins — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:12:28 +0000

Hi Pat!

That’s an interesting comment. I don’t always title my books, although I try my best to veto any I think are ridiculous. I did, however, suggest Scandal in Scotland for my coming May 24th book and it works quite well for it because there really is a scandal brewing between the pages of the book.

To give you a brief outline: The heroine is being blackmailed and if she doesn’t produce a certain ancient onyx box, her blackmailer will reveal her family secret to all and sundry. And yes, her secret would indeed result in a scandal, though it wouldn’t have had a huge effect on her. As an actress, she really doesn’t have a reputation that could be sullied by a scandal, though she could still certainly be involved in one. No, the scandal the heroine is trying to avoid would have hurt innocent others.

Sometimes what’s inside the book explains what’s what a good deal better than the short cover blurb, which – because of its length – can only explain so much.

By: Cee

Cee — Sun, 08 May 2011 02:10:29 +0000

“Scandal” is one of my romance pet peeves – but unfortunately like with the majority of romance titles, the words are meaningless. How many of us have wracked our brains trying to think of a title of a book though we remember the plot/characters? It’s all just white noise.

By: maggie b.

maggie b. — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:39:04 +0000

The fact that titles and covers no longer can be used as definers for what the book is like is an endless source of irritation to me.The end result is that buzz words such as scandal tend to push me away from a book rather than towards it. Clearly, though, they work for *someone* or publishers wouldn’t be so quick to use them.

maggie b.

By: Virginia DeMarce

Virginia DeMarce — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:41:46 +0000

I tend to think that romance novelists use “scandal” to mean “anything that would have made the gossip columns at the time.” Or the tabloids (of which there were equivalents in the 18th and 19th centuries). In the real world, a “scandal” was outside the accepted norms of society.

It was hard for actresses and courtesans to create real scandals about themselves, because they weren’t expected to live respectably. It only became a “scandal” when a duke married the actress who was his mistress.

So a rake behaving like a rake was not a scandal.

By: JML

JML — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:13:49 +0000

You made me curious Pat so I checked Urban Dictionary — often good for a giggle for those of us who have always depended on Webster’s — and it gave me a bit of a laugh. It seems that their definition of scandal is “Something that is currently happening, what a person is up to, the news.”

I haven’t consciously thought about it too much because, like other comments here, I’ve found that the title and/or covers and/or cover blurbs have very little relevance to the content of the book. For my purchases I’m depending more and more on reviews or simply the authors that I know and find reliable.

Generally I pass right by anything with the overused “Prey” in the title, but like “scandal”, it sells so I assume we’ll be seeing it over and over.

By: HazelB

HazelB — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:19:15 +0000

I am sick to death of books with scandal, wicked, sin and sinful in the titles. I’ve pretty much decided that those words are a signal for “Do Not Buy.”