April 5, 2009
Because of this, I feel that I ought to change the title of what has been until now Gathering Thunderheads. The Robert Jordan book will probably be #1 on the New York Times best seller list, and thus if I keep my title, there will no doubt be confusion and association. The publisher would probably request I change the title anyway, so I decided to change it. I’m not certain if it will stay, but at the moment I like Looming Thunderheads for this volume. It keeps a similar sense as ‘gathering thunderheads’, but ‘looming’ offers a bit more atmosphere, more of a hint of darkness and evil. The meaning of ‘Thunderheads’ must therefore change (though it has shifted in my mind already, as I have incorporated the storm imagery into the narrative) into a sense of the threats that are arrayed against the characters rather than the characters themselves, I as I had originally intended.
Filed under The Redemption Saga.