Your book titles

Hi I just want to say I am a really big fan of yours! I have to be honest I always thought your books were awesome, especially Alice. I always loved the covers of all your books and especially your titles because I feel deeply about a lot of things and your titles along with the covers always spoke to me. Do you choose your book titles or do your publisher or editor pick them, if you choose them, how do you come up with such cool and great titles for your books? Once again, I love your writing and hope there’s more to read soon!

I chose most of the titles, but my editors probably chose the ones you liked best.  They also kept up with what was popular.  I usually chose short titles.  But then it seemed that books with long odd titles were selling very well, so it was my editor who thought of titles like “It’s Not That I Planned it This Way,” though “Now I’ll Tell You Everything” was my idea.  It was the same with the covers.  I usually pictured a scene of some sort, and I wasn’t all that enthused about covers that featured just a part of a body–a girl from the neck down or a girl’s foot in the foreground.  But just like fashions in clothes, books go through styles as well.