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The new technology just keeps racing ahead of us all. The title for the new Anita book hit the Internet before I announced it. It was apparently an automatic bit of technology that neither my editor nor I understood; now we do. It won’t happen again. But since it did, here’s the title: Hit List.

That’s right, the new Anita Blake novel is, “Hit List”. My editor, publisher, et al, had agreed they liked my title months ago. I held off announcing it, because I’ve had novels change drastically during the writing process, so much so that the original title no longer worked. I wanted to be absolutely certain that, Hit List, was THE title for this book. Lucky for me, it does, indeed work as the title for the next Anita novel. What would we have done if it hadn’t? My editor would have had them change the title late in the game. Sometimes titles are not certain until almost the last second as they go to print. I believe one famous example is, “Jaws” they were still debating on titles as they set the graphics for the cover.

So, you have the new title, and I’m secure that it makes sense with the book I’m writing, so next summer, you’ll get to read it, well, after I finishing writing it. That pesky writing part that makes all the covers and titles have something to wrap themselves around.