Okay Tumblr followers, I’m really gonna need you to come through for me on this one (meaning doing more than just clicking “like,” which, while appreciated, is also utterly useless to me in situations like this).

So, here’s the deal. I am writing a thing. A fiction thing. Can’t say too much more than that because of reasons, but basically, I had what I thought was a pretty good title. The story was called Sam & Annie (short for the main character’s full first names, Samantha and Annika).

Not a bad title at all. But sadly, I need a new one. Why? Well, when discussing the story with my father (one of a very very tiny number of people I’m letting in on all the details of the story) via Skype, he said the following thing (paraphrased from memory).

“The title has kind of a Woody Allen vibe to it.”

So yeah, I need a new title now because I’d rather not have my readers be thinking of a child rapist when they’re reading my story. I know that that wasn’t what my Dad meant to do, but it’s a case of “can’t unsee” now. So, any ideas my fellow Tumblrites? I mean, There are over 240 people who follow this blog, I’m sure at least ONE of you has a good title idea.

Here’s some additional details about the story (again, don’t want to share too much before it’s done) to help spark the creative juices (and to mix the metaphors).

Yes, the title couple is a same-sex couple. No, there will be no explicit sex scenes. Keeping this PG-13. It’s about the relationship, not the naughty bits. Also, being a cishet male, I feel like I’m already skirting the edge of fetishization as is.

One of them is a lesbian (and a cyborg with 20% of her body being cybernetic) and the other is pan (and a biologist). The biologist has a child from a previous marriage that ended only because her husband thought she was dead for several years*; the two still get along so there will be NO love triangle (a long standing rule of my fiction is NO LOVE TRIANGLES!). The cyborg is an orphan. No fake drama; the couple actually talks to each other. What pressures there are on their relationship come from outside factors beyond their control, not poor communication like in your average “romance” story.

So, ideas?



* It makes sense in context.

