A name by any other name is still, well, a name....
I changed the working title of the novel today. It's only a working title, and I have no doubt that the publisher will change it when and if it's sold. But a working title (in my opinion) is meant to either simply be a placeholder for the author, or it's meant to get the author jazzed about the novel. So I changed it to something that jazzes me up a little more.
Before, I called it "Circles" after the discussion groups that were popular in Germany (it's also what the Germans called the little "clubs" of anti-fascists who met in secret). I've changed it to "The Black Orchestra" -- I'll have to explain that a little, so here's what I've noted in my background notes:
Radio intercepts by German security services made a priority of tracking clandestine radio transmissions out of Germany and the occupied territories. Because a key is used to tap out Morse code, the apparatus was referred to as a clavier, after the musical instrument. A network of such radios was known as an “orchestra.”
Black Orchestra (Schwarze Kapella): The name given by the Gestapo to an unknown group of conspirators actively resisting policies of the National Socialist party and plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler.
Before, I called it "Circles" after the discussion groups that were popular in Germany (it's also what the Germans called the little "clubs" of anti-fascists who met in secret). I've changed it to "The Black Orchestra" -- I'll have to explain that a little, so here's what I've noted in my background notes:
Radio intercepts by German security services made a priority of tracking clandestine radio transmissions out of Germany and the occupied territories. Because a key is used to tap out Morse code, the apparatus was referred to as a clavier, after the musical instrument. A network of such radios was known as an “orchestra.”
Black Orchestra (Schwarze Kapella): The name given by the Gestapo to an unknown group of conspirators actively resisting policies of the National Socialist party and plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler.