Publisher: It’s a great idea and a great manuscript but I’m not so sure about the title.
Editor: How do you mean?
P: Well…I don’t know… 99 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa. It feels like there's something missing.
E: I’ve got an idea.
P: What?
E: How about another amazing tale?
P: How do you mean?
E: Well, with another tale we could call it 100 Amazing Tales!
P: That's inspired. But do you have another tale?
E: As it happens I do. And it is the most incredible tale of all. Frame detective.
P: Go on...
E: OK, it turns out the guy who is in charge of frames found this old frame in the back of the store.
P: Unbelievable.
E: It gets better. He thinks ‘what was this frame for?”
P: But he’s the frame detective right, I bet he figures it out.
E: He sure does. He turns the frame around and on the front glued to the front of the frame is a label with the title of a painting.
P: Incredible… and?
E: He digs deep and puts two plus two together. Four! This has got to be the name of the painting that belongs to the frame.
P: Frame detective!
E: Exactly.
P: Awesome story. Incredible detective work. We should put it in the book.
And they did
Editor: How do you mean?
P: Well…I don’t know… 99 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa. It feels like there's something missing.
E: I’ve got an idea.
P: What?
E: How about another amazing tale?
P: How do you mean?
E: Well, with another tale we could call it 100 Amazing Tales!
P: That's inspired. But do you have another tale?
E: As it happens I do. And it is the most incredible tale of all. Frame detective.
P: Go on...
E: OK, it turns out the guy who is in charge of frames found this old frame in the back of the store.
P: Unbelievable.
E: It gets better. He thinks ‘what was this frame for?”
P: But he’s the frame detective right, I bet he figures it out.
E: He sure does. He turns the frame around and on the front glued to the front of the frame is a label with the title of a painting.
P: Incredible… and?
E: He digs deep and puts two plus two together. Four! This has got to be the name of the painting that belongs to the frame.
P: Frame detective!
E: Exactly.
P: Awesome story. Incredible detective work. We should put it in the book.
And they did