I would like to run some title ideas by you, especially to those familiar and/or intimately associated with the original printing of the first Canis Sapiens book, which was further identified as Book One: The Dingo Factor. As you may well be aware, I have no affiliation with the original publisher and found that particular relationship to be a negative one. I had interrupted work on the sequel in order to revamp the first volume so that I could present new publishers with a revised--and expanded--edition of the original, but most publishers will not even look at previously published books unless they were blockbuster hits. I have found one or two that would be willing to look at it if accompanied by its follow-up, and so now that Book One has been revised, I have returned to Book Two and have maybe one-third left to write.
With that being said, I decided to give the first book a new title (which was suggested anyway by one publisher), and to further relegate the series title to a more secondary position. So the revised and expanded edition of Canis Sapiens Book One: The Dingo Factor will now be known as The Hollow Howl. Whatcha think? And after a very tough time trying to come up with a title for the sequel as I've been writing it, I finally hit upon In Sheep's Clothing. Both would be accompanied by "A Canis Sapiens Adventure" to announce the series they belong to. (And long ago I had already declared that the third installment would be called Red Fang.) It was not easy to rename my baby--and there are those who are strongly against it--but I do feel that the new name and arrangement are more fitting with what is found on the covers of its contemporaries. I also like the new name itself. Anyone familiar enough with the story to find it to be particularly appropriate?
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