The
Rocking Girl
I've
been working on a novel set in British Columbia and Ireland. I've
managed the third major revision, pushing it last week in order to
run off a copy to give to my first beta reader, my writer friend
Marilyn Meden, who was here for a summer holiday visit. She gave me
valuable feedback. As we were discussing the protagonist, Wyn, and
the “arc” of the story, I heard myself insisting that the novel
is not about the relationship, it is about Wyn, and her development. And that I need a title which tips the reader to that fact, that it's
about Wyn. Then it came to me. The Rocking Girl. And with it came the
concept for the cover – a statue of a rocking girl, in the yoga,
not the fetal position. Wyn is an artist and the Rocking Girl is one
of her pieces to which other characters refer. Thanks, Marilyn.
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