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For example, the first book I started writing was called BEWITCHING EYES, but that one was never completed. I started it back in the late seventies in the heyday of Roger and Woodiwiss. Parts of it made it into the dream sequences of THE MASQUE which I started back in the late nineties. I called it that for months and months until I heard a line in a movie, THE CROUPIER. Clive Owen murmurs sleepily to his fiancée as she’s leaving for her shift work, “See you in my dreams.” I knew I had the title for my book.

LOVE ON THE RUN’s title originally was “AN INCONVENIENT THREESOME”, but the title made the story sound a lot more risqué than it was. It wasn’t a ménage a trios story at all. The heroine's young son made the important third person in that story. And once LOVE ON THE RUN hit me, I couldn't make myself change it, even though there were numerous books with the same title.

I believe the somewhat humorous THE MAN FOR THE JOB always had that title, but I toyed with RECIPE FOR MURDER for a while, and ALL NIGHT LONG was also a contender. The set-in-Tennesee story, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, changed midway to TRUST NO ONE, but I changed it back to the original since it fit the premise so well with a hero who appeared to be too good to be true.

ONE TOO MANY, the mystery/suspense sequel to LOVE ON THE RUN, was given that title because I thought maybe, just maybe, I would write more in that series, and the murder victim had obviously dallied with one too many married women.

My romantic suspense, HOLDING HER OWN, was originally titled GAMBLE ON LOVE because it was set in a New Orleans casino, but more and more the story was about the heroine learning and believing she could hold her own against her roguish partner Agent Jake LeFevre in any situation.

I've enjoyed my week here at Novelspot and I appreciate the opportunity to drop by and blog.

For more about my books, you can check out my web site, and I love to hear from readers at marie AT marienicoleryan DOT com.