> BTW, "Brown Girl in the Ring" is actually a ring game that I played as a
> child. The people forming the ring sing the song while the child in the
> middle performs a trick that the others try to copy. The object of the
> game is to make it a challenging trick. The line from the song that
> goes, "Show me your motion," essentially means "Show us what you can
> do." It seemed an apt metaphor to me for a protagonist who has to learn
> "what she can do" really quickly or perish.
Yes, in fact the day before yesterday I was going through a catalog of books
for Early Childhood Education teachers and I saw one called Brown Girl in
the Ring and Other Afro-Caribbean Action Rhymes, or some such, which is
what made me think of your book.
> But there are many sf titles that don't scream genre.
> >
This is true, of course. My earlier post was something of an
exaggeration, although an exaggeration based on fact. The classier
publishing houses and editors are likely to be more flexible, particularly
when dealing with a book that they see as literary or somewhat cross-genre.
Name authors are also likely to get more leeway with their titles.
Mike
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