Heck, every time I read a bad book, I learn something. I feel like every time I read a good book it influences me. What book or author has most influenced you as a writer or in general? It’s much harder than you’d think! In the end, I think we found some winners for the second and third books- No Easy Way Out and No Dawn Without Darkness. I spent days trying to come up with catchy four-word titles beginning with “ No” that were vaguely aphoristic. Of course then we faced the problem of having to come up with titles for the other two books in the series that would match. We gave up on mall and, after many other attempts, finally struck title gold with No Safety in Numbers. We tried innumerable combinations of words with Mall ( Dead Mall, Mall of Death, etc.), all of which just sounded like B-movie titles. My editor and I bandied about a bunch of different titles trying to hit on exactly the right one. Once it was acquired by Dial, that wet noodle of a name was scrapped. Titles completely stress me out! The original title for this series, as I pitched it, was Mallrats.
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