Sarah's Recipe for Romance

I am thrilled to announce a new title for The Virtuous Courtesan. Following conversations with my former publishing world coworkers, and feedback from some of my early readers, I decided to change the title to Flirting with Scandal.

While the title, The Virtuous Courtesan, worked with the overall premise—an innocent twenty-something lady whose best friend’s unconventional plan leads her to pose as a courtesan—some felt this title a tad too serious. In addition, I believe Flirting with Scandal is a more selling title.

Having nearly completed the first draft of Courting Scandal, my second novel in what I hope will one day become a series, I feel that Flirting with Scandal also ties the two books together. Ever since I began writing Courting Scandal, I’d been looking for a way to link the two books.

I’d spent time brainstorming of new titles, but nothing sounded quite right. It wasn’t until I was standing on my mother-in-law’s farm in Oregon surrounded by a herd of goats that the title, Flirting with Scandal, popped into my head. A field filled with cashmere goats might not be the place most writers go when searching for inspiration, but at least now I know where to turn if I’m ever in need of a title. 

Now I’m off to write the last few chapters of Courting Scandal!