Hello Alison - thanks so much for visiting my blog! Tell me about your new book The Weight of Shadows- how did you come up with the title? I love it!

I wish I could take the credit for it, but that actually goes to Dudley Delffs, who was head of fiction at Zondervan at the time that we came up with it. Usually the title comes to me along with the first kernel of an idea, but for some reason I just could not think of one for this book. I called it "Guilt" as a working title, and when I turned it in I told my editor I was open to anything since I hadn't had any luck. A few weeks later Dudley suggested wrote me with that title, and I was blown away. It was perfect, and absolutely nothing like any title I ever would have come up with. I have a trend of two-word titles (Worlds Collide, Violette Between, Reinventing Rachel) and that title went in a great, different direction. [...]

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