Back when we were searching for a title for the first book, one of the more demented suggestions came from my friend, the gloriously inventive Stuart Neville, who I'll note in passing is the author of the excellent paranormal thriller The Ghosts of Belfast.
Stuart suggested we call it Acropolis Now. When we finished laughing, we realized Acropolis Now was brilliant, original, amusing, and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the book. Still we thought his idea was so funny, we took it to the Powers That Rule The Universe, which means the editors.
Here's what happened with Acropolis Now (I've pulled this from a comment in a post of about 2 months ago):
The Scene: Janet (agent), Kathleen (editor), Keith (executive editor and He Who Pays For Lunch), and I are standing outside a Greek (of course) restaurant in New York.
Janet: We have a brilliant title idea for the book.
Keith: Tell me the title.
Janet: Acropolis Now.
Keith: (manic laughter) NO!
All right, I admit it looks better on their cover than it would have on ours. Also, on theirs it actually makes sense. Nice to see Acropolis Now got up somewhere.
Stuart suggested we call it Acropolis Now. When we finished laughing, we realized Acropolis Now was brilliant, original, amusing, and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the book. Still we thought his idea was so funny, we took it to the Powers That Rule The Universe, which means the editors.
Here's what happened with Acropolis Now (I've pulled this from a comment in a post of about 2 months ago):
The Scene: Janet (agent), Kathleen (editor), Keith (executive editor and He Who Pays For Lunch), and I are standing outside a Greek (of course) restaurant in New York.
Janet: We have a brilliant title idea for the book.
Keith: Tell me the title.
Janet: Acropolis Now.
Keith: (manic laughter) NO!
So it was with some amusement that I received an email from Keith just now, suggesting we look at the cover of the current issue of The Economist.