We have a Title!

[kimberleylittle]

It's been a week since I turned in my new manuscript to my editor and I have no fingernails left. Truly, she is brutal for making me wait! Kidding! It *is* hard though. My critique group loved it, my son loved, it, but the people who count the most: Gorgeous Editor and Super Agent have yet to read it . . . I will suffer in silence.

Meanwhile, my

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[barboconnor]

I love Circle of Secrets!

[kimberleylittle]

Thanks, Barbara! I value your opinion highly!

[out_totheblack]

LOL, I've never hear anyone out of Louisiana use the word traiteur and I'm sure many outside of the Lafayette area wouldn't know what it was. I like The Traiteur's Daughter, though.

What kind of circle are you talking of, a magical circle or a coven?

At this point, I like Secrets, Spells, and Charms.

[kimberleylittle]

Yeah, I'm partial to Secrets, Spells and Charms, myself, but my editor says the Scholastic book fairs stay away from words like "witch" and "magic" in book titles because of parents and teacher complaints. I think I may be banned - this book has hoodoo in it!

I've traveled around Louisiana a lot and met and interviewed 7 traiteurs last spring. They lived all over, from Lafayette to Houma, although in the Houma area they refer to themselves more as "treaters". What city are you near? My upcoming "The Healing Spell" is set in a mythical small town along the Bayou Teche.

The Circle in my new book is a circle of girls using magic spells for beauty and popularity - and start going a little too far. It's a tweener, not YA though. :-)

[out_totheblack]

I'm in Baton Rouge. We pass part of the Teche when we go to Lafayette. Houma is nice. We fish down in Theriot, about 20 miles south of Houma into the marsh. My husband's uncle has a camp down there. It's really pretty, the area, not the camp :)

I like Circle of Secrets if you can't get Secrets, Spells, and Charms.

Cool on the taitueurs. I've never met one. I was teaching massage in Lafayette and talking with someone about natural healing, wholistic medicine and naturopaths when I heard of them. I thought it was pretty cool.

[shoebrera]

Thumbs Up for Circle of Secrets.

[kimberleylittle]

THANKS for the feedback! That is fun to hear!

[stacy_dekeyser]

Kimberley, I LOVE *Circle of Secrets*!!

(Oh, and congratulations!)

[kimberleylittle]

Gosh, thanks, Stacy! I love your stars around the title! :-)

[kimberleylittle]

Yeah, my editor says once she reads the whole manuscript she might change her mind! We'll see . . . it's not scheduled until Summer 2011 so there's time. And I need to read Sandra Hill!!!! Wow, how did I miss her?

I'm fairly certain my book will be the first MG with a traiteur. :-)