"Out of Exile" tested strong, and I think it does draw attention. One person in "Close Friends" thought it implied banishment, but Rhiannon, in the prequel, was basically being forced to marry a king for the sake of the kingdom and that involved banishment or exile. Another character's uncle is banished. There are races in the kingdom that aren't acknowledged as citizens, and that counts as a kind of internal banishment. The novel, now that I think about it, reeks of exile. The main novel starts with her escape from that exile, and, in the metaphorical sense, the novel ends when she realizes, deep down inside, that she has really, truly come home. (For most of the book, she does not feel that, even after moving back home, fighting a civil war, marriage, etc.). The plot is a quest one, with the quest being, well, to come out of exile, both literally and metaphorically. Oh, and if you want to be really, really old school, it is 'princess'' Before 1972, grammarians were saying that you don't add the s after the apostrophe in possessives for words that end with 's.' It has only been since then that they allow the double s. I think you're right that the use of 'Fairy' in front of anything would have the reaction--same old, same old. As I envision a four to five book series (for now), I thought at one point that everything should be '______of Rhiannon.' But there is another series about the original Rhiannon, and I don't want to confuse the two. Besides, that didn't test strong. I think 'exile' has some archetypal qualities to it; after all, our civilization is built on Jewish and Christian foundations (yes, and pagan and scientific ones as well), and 'exile' is deeply embedded in our psyches. It is a metaphor for alienation, sin, abandonment, and all of those weave into my story. Well, as you may be my publisher, we may have hit upon a title that both reflects the book and is a good marketing tool. I'll look at Christopher's covers at your website. Cheers.
